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The Microscopic Diagnosis of Malaria

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Lesson 3 Plasmodium vivax Rare Forms, Thick Film

This is a less curved ookinete.

 

Note the apical concentration of pigment. The ookinete will lodge in the stomach wall of the mosquito and become an oocyst.

Plasmodium vivax rare forms, thin film

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