Plasmodium malariae
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Pathology
- P. malariae infects primarily older erythrocytes.
- recurrences of disease from P. falciparum or P. malariae (recrudescence) result from increased numbers of persisting blood forms, not from persisting liver forms
Clinical manifestations
Laboratory
- Plasmodium identified in blood by light microscopy (peripheral blood smear)
- Erythrocytes are normal in size without stippling.
- all stages may be seen in peripheral blood
- trophozoites are rounded & compact, occasionally band-form
- 6-14 merozoites, average 8
- Plasmodium malariae serology
- Plasmodium malariae DNA