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Leishmaniasis
T. cruzi.
The bottom panel is classic with the kinetoplast located at the head of the cell.
The others are difficult - is the EDTA causing the trypanomastigotes to curl up? They don't look like pseudocysts.
The last is a classic T. cruzi; I would've guessed Leishmania for the others too, though you wouldn't see extracellular amastigotes in the blood very often if ever. Even the stumpy forms of T. brucei are usually more elongated.
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