Answer to May 2012 Photo Quiz
2012
Answer: Tertian malaria. The patient suffered from tertian malaria. The thin Giemsa-stained blood smear revealed several stages of Plasmodium vivax infection (see Fig. 1A, B, and C in the Photo Quiz): young trophozoites (delicate ring form) in normal-sized erythrocytes without Schuffner's dots (
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