Typical stages in the Peripheral Blood
- Plasmodium vivax
- P. malariae
- Young ring-shaped schizont
- Multinucleate schizont
- Final stage of schizogony (the so-called Morula (I)
or "daisy" (II))
- Male gametocytes
- Female gametocytes.
In
P. vivax there are characteristic changes in the erythrocytes: they are enlarged and often show, when they are stained with Giemsa, SCHUFFNER'S dots!This is column 3