A photomicrograph of a blood smear with Plasmodium malariae parasites infecting RBCs during the ring stage.
The immature trophozoite (ring stage) of the P. malariae parasite has a sturdy cytoplasm. There is usually only one ring per cell with one large chromatin dot, but in this case there are two dots.
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