A case of Trypanosoma cruzi trypomastigotes detected in a peripheral blood smear of a newborn. Morphology of the Chagas disease pathogen and diagnosis.
Trypanosoma in the peripheral blood of a one-month-old infant with fever. The mother arrived from Bolivia. The smear was part of an external quality control.
Detection of Plasmodium gametocytes in a peripheral blood smear one day after schizonts were found. Laboratory diagnosis of malaria.
Laboratory diagnosis of tertian malaria: microscopic signs and morphology of Plasmodium vivax schizonts in a thin peripheral blood smear.
Microscopy of blood smears in babesiosis (piroplasmosis): paired pear-shaped Babesia inclusions in erythrocytes, thrombocytopenia, and cytolysis in blood tests.
