Plasmodium falciparum

• Plasmodium falciparum Malignant Tertian Malaria

  • Small ring forms (1/6 diameter red blood cells), applique form/accole/marginal/double nuclear dots.
• Plasmodium falciparum

  • Multiple parasitization of red cells. Multiple Ring infection
• Plasmodium falciparum

  • Maurer’s dots (Stephen Christopher’s Dots/ Cuneiform dots)
• Plasmodium falciparum

  • Invades all stages of RBCs.

  • Gametocytes: Crescent/ Banana shaped
• Plasmodium falciparum

  • Only one that causes cytoadherence
• Plasmodium falciparum Malignat Tertian Malaria

  A) Ring Form

  B) Gametocyte