Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Case of the Week 330

This week's case was generously donated by Dr. LoAnn Peterson and Dr. Alicia Franken from Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago.  The patient is a male in his early 50s with recent travel from Cameroon.  The following images are from Wright-Giemsa stained thin films made from peripheral blood.  Identification?



6 comments:

Anonymous said...

P. Falciparum. Looks like a heavy parasitemia

Anonymous said...

Plasmodium falciparum

Anonymous said...

Plasmodium ovale....RBC fimbriation

Anonymous said...

Only ring forms, "applique" forms, "head phones" forms are present. Infected red cells are not larger than non infected red cells. Though some red cells are crenated, this should not be taken for fimbriation. There is no band forms observed. No other stages of development besides trophozoites are found.
All above clues are consistent with P. falciparum. This is a very heavy infection.

Florida Fan

Anonymous said...

Plasmodium falciparum

Anonymous said...

Looks like falciparum.

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