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The objective of the present work was to determine the effects of riboflavin deficiency on erythrocyte glutathione peroxidase (<jats:italic>EC<\/jats:italic>1.11.1.9; GPx) and superoxide dismutase (<jats:italic>EC<\/jats:italic>1.15.1.1; SOD) in rats infected with<jats:italic>Plasmodium berghei<\/jats:italic>malaria. Riboflavin in its co-enzyme form, FAD, is required by glutathione reductase (<jats:italic>EC<\/jats:italic>1.6.4.1) to regenerate GSH and GSH is an important cellular antioxidant both in its own right and also as a substrate for the enzyme GPx. Weanling rats were deprived of riboflavin for 8 weeks before intraperitoneal injection of 1 \u00d7 10<jats:sup>6<\/jats:sup><jats:italic>P. berghei<\/jats:italic>parasites. Control animals were weight-matched to the respective riboflavin-deficient group. At 10d post-infection, parasite counts were higher in the weight-matched control group than the riboflavin-deficient group (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>= 0.004). GPx activity was higher in erythrocytes of rats parasitized with<jats:italic>P. berghei<\/jats:italic>than comparable non-infected rats regardless of riboflavin status (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>&lt; 0.05). As mature erythrocytes do not synthesize new protein, the higher GPx activities were probably due to the presence of the parasite protein. In erythrocytes from riboflavin-deficient rats, GPx activity tended to be lower than in those rats fed on diets adequate in riboflavin (weight-matched controls) whether parasitized or not, but the difference was not significant. Neither riboflavin deficiency nor malaria had any effect on erythrocyte SOD activity. 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