Volume 15, Number 9—September 2009
Dispatch
Human Plasmodium knowlesi Infection Detected by Rapid Diagnostic Tests for Malaria
Figure 1
![Morphology of Plasmodium knowlesi in a Giemsa-stained thin blood smear. Infected erythrocytes were not enlarged, lacked Schuffner stippling, and contained much pigment. Shown are examples of trophozoites (A–F), a schizont (G), and a gametocyte (H). Scale bars = 5 μm.](/eid/images/09-0358-F1.jpg)
Figure 1. Morphology of Plasmodium knowlesi in a Giemsa-stained thin blood smear. Infected erythrocytes were not enlarged, lacked Schuffner stippling, and contained much pigment. Shown are examples of trophozoites (A–F), a schizont (G), and a gametocyte (H). Scale bars = 5 μm.
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