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Malaria is a life-threatening infectious disease that, in severe cases, is associated with calamitous complications and far-reaching consequences within a community. It is usually manifested by abnormalities in various hematological indices with anemia and thrombocytopenia being the most frequent ones. The present study sheds light on the laboratory profile of patients suffering from malaria and provides a comprehensive analysis and correlation with the available literature worldwide. The study was carried out as a cross-sectional study at OK Diagnostic Lab and Research Center in Peshawar from October 2010 to October 2013. All malaria parasite (MP)-positive cases reported at OK Lab during the study period were employed in the study, making a total of 136 MP positive cases. Complete blood pictures with platelet counts were obtained in all patients and various hematological indices were analyzed according to the World Health Organization (WHO) criteria. Thrombocytopenia was defined as a platelet count of < 150 × 10 3 /cmm and anemia as an hemoglobin (Hb) < 13 g/dL in males and < 12 g/dL in females. Among the 136 MP positive patients, 74 (55.4%) had associated thrombocytopenia while 105 (77.2%) patients showed anemia on a peripheral blood smear. This was followed by leukopenia in 8.8% of cases. Among patients with  Plasmodium falciparum  ( P. falciparum ) infection, anemia was present in 80% of cases as compared to 74% cases with  P.   vivax  infection (p = 0.5). Thrombocytopenia was associated with  P.   vivax  infection in 71.4% of cases in contrast to P. falciparum infection, where 26% of cases had associated thrombocytopenia (p = 0.01). On the contrary, leukopenia was more prevalent in  P. falciparum  patients (18%), followed by  P.   vivax  (2.6%), and mixed parasitemia (11.1%) (p < 0.001). In addition, the study showed statistically significant variations in hematocrit (Hct), mean corpuscular volume (MCV), mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (MCHC), and platelet counts across different malarial species (p < 0.05). Likewise, variations within mean Hct levels among males and females were statistically significant, with females showing lower mean Hct levels than males (p < 0.05).

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Hematological Profile of Patients Having Malaria-positive Peripheral Blood Smears: A Cross-sectional Study at a Diagnostic Research Center in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan