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The Microscopic Diagnosis of Malaria

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Lesson 2 Plasmodium falciparum Gametocytes, Thick Film

Thick film Plasmodium falciparum gametocytes

This is an image of two gametocytes with eroded cytoplasm.

 

Gametocyte cytoplasm and other parasitic stages have been rinsed away. Examine the

smear for ghosts of parasites with a central pigment mass.

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