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The Microscopic Diagnosis of Malaria

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Lesson 3 Plasmodium vivax Gametocytes, Thin Film

 

1. Immature forms are similar to mature trophozoites.

    

2. Mature gametocytes are large and rounded with a fine, abundant, scattered mass of pigment and not vacuolated.

 

3. Microgametocytes have light-blue cytoplasm with diffuse pink chromatin.

 

4. Macrogametocytes have darker blue cytoplasm and compact eccentric mass of dark-red chromatin.

Summary of Characteristics