Plasmodium vivax

• Plasmodium vivax is also known as what?

  Benign Tertian Malaria
• Fevers for Plasmodium vivax occurs every what?

  48 hours
• Do P. vivax exhibits RECRUDESCENCE or TRUE RELAPSE?

  True relapse
• During the true relapse of P. vivax, HYPNOZOITES are DORMANT in LIVER CELLS.
• P. vivax is the MOST WIDELY DISSEMINATED and MOST PREVALENT
• Reticulocytes: young RBCs
• P. vivax infects RBCs in ENLARGED size and invades RETILUCOCYTES
• What are the PIGMENT/GRANULES of P. vivax?

  Schuffner's dot and eosinophilic stipplings
• What are the stages of P. vivax seen in peripheral blood smear?

  all stages
• Ring form: SINGLE LARGE RING succeeded by ameboid form in pale large red cell
• Trophozoite: LARGE AMEBOID CYTOPLASM w/ Schuffner's dots in RBCs
• Schizont: presence of MULTIPLE CHROMATIN BODIES that emerge from progressive chromatin division
• Gametocytes: round to oval, LARGE PINK TO PURPLE CHROMATIN MASS surrounded by colorless to PALE HALO (giemsa stain)
• What is this?

  Ring form of plasmodium vivax

  
• What is this?

  gametocyte of plasmodium vivax

  
• What is this?

  trophozoite of plasmodium vivax

  
• What is this?

  Schizont of plasmodium vivax