This photomicrograph shows a red blood cell being infected by Plasmodium vivax in it’s schizont stage; Magnified 1000X.
The mature schizont of P. vivax contains 12 - 24 merozoites, a product of asexual division. It will eventually rupture, and the merozoites will invade other erythrocytes to repeat the erythrocytic schizogony, or will develop into gametocytes.
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