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The Microscopic Diagnosis of Malaria

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Lesson 3 Plasmodium vivax Trophozoites, Thick Film

Notice how much larger the trophozoites of P. vivax are in the thin film than of P. falciparum.  
 

P. falciparum appears mostly as dots with filaments or remnants of rings of cytoplasm.

Plasmodium vivax trophozoites, thick blood film

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