The Microscopic Diagnosis of Malaria
Plasmodium vivax Schizonts, Thin Film
Here is an early schizont.
You know it is a schizont
because the nucleus has
begun to divide, and you
you can see two masses
of chromatin. Chromatin
is the red nuclear
material after the first
nuclear division.
Plasmodium vivax
schizonts, thin
blood film