This photomicrograph of a blood smear shows RBCs infected with Plasmodium falciparum during the parasite’s ring stage.
An immature trophozoite may mature into an erythrocytic schizont or gametocytes. When the erythrocytic schizont ruptures, merozoites spill into the blood and repeat the cycle of infecting erythrocytes.
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