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Please note that all opinions expressed here are mine and not my employer. Information provided is for educational purposes only. It is not intended as and does not substitute for medical advice. I do not accept medical consults from patients.
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7 comments:
Plasmodium, ¿ovale?
I was thinking P. ovale as well. Lee
Happy New Year to all!
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.
Happy New Year to all
Marco Ligozzi
marco.ligozzi@univr.it
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.
Happy new Year :)
Very nice photographs of P. ovale. The shape and appearance of the infected RBC is consistent with this African plasmodium.
Florida Fan
agree with P. Ovale - in the last picture is that a basophil next to the parasite?
or perhaps i meant eosinophil...
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