Monday, December 30, 2013

Case of the Week 288

The following were seen in a Giemsa-stained thin blood film from a child from Cameroon.




















Identification?

7 comments:

  1. I was thinking P. ovale as well. Lee

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  2. I think it is P.ovale
    The picture show a trophozoite infecting an elliptical RBC with Shuffner’s stippling more evident especially at the edges of the erythrocyte. Malaria pigment is visbile.

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    Marco Ligozzi
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  3. Dr.Rajani here

    Looks like Plasmodium ovale trophozoite
    The parasitized erythrocytes are oval in shape and fimbriated at the top end
    Cytoplasm is fairly regular, fleshy; pigment is scattered, coarse
    We can also see Schuffner's dots in infected red blood cells, which is relevant to P.ovale infection; yet, these dots also appear in case of P.vivax infection.

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  4. Very nice photographs of P. ovale. The shape and appearance of the infected RBC is consistent with this African plasmodium.

    Florida Fan

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  5. agree with P. Ovale - in the last picture is that a basophil next to the parasite?

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