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Another change seen in infected red cells is called stippling. Stippling are very fine dots seen throughout the structure of the red blood cell.
This image shows P. vivax and contains {Shüffner’s }
Shüffner’s dots. These dots are very fine specks in the infected red blood cell, they are not in the parasite.