A thin blood film shows red cells with multiple small ring forms and occasional banana-shaped (crescentic) gametocytes. Which organism is most likely?
1Babesia microti
2Plasmodium vivax
3Plasmodium falciparum✓ 정답
4Trypanosoma brucei
해설
Crescent (banana) shaped gametocytes with multiple ring forms and absent peripheral schizonts are characteristic of Plasmodium falciparum. Babesia lacks gametocytes; P. vivax enlarges cells with Schuffner dots.