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Fig. 2 | Parasites & Vectors

Fig. 2

From: A new lizard malaria parasite Plasmodium intabazwe n. sp. (Apicomplexa: Haemospororida: Plasmodiidae) in the Afromontane Pseudocordylus melanotus (Sauria: Cordylidae) with a review of African saurian malaria parasites

Fig. 2

Plasmodium intabazwe n. sp. in the lizard Pseudocordylus melanotus (A. Smith, 1838) (Sauria: Cordylidae). a Rounded trophozoite (arrow). b Oval-shaped trophozoite (arrow). c Immature broadly rounded meront with dark golden brown pigment granules dispersed throughout. d Rounded meront (arrowhead) with rounded trophozoite (arrow). e Meront with pigment granules (arrowhead) producing eight merozoites (arrow). f Meront with loosely aggregating pigment granules (arrowhead). g Kidney-shaped meront with clumped pigment granules (arrowhead). h Kidney-shaped microgametocyte with irregular pigment. i Macrogametocyte with evenly dispersed pigment. j Transmission electron micrograph of an infected erythrocyte containing a meront lying in a polar position with a surface micropore (mp), various intracytoplasmic vacuoles (arrows), and a dense body (db). Meront membrane is in direct contact with the host erythrocyte cytoplasm (cy). Images (a-i) captured from the hapantotype and parahapantotype slides (NMB P 412 and 413, respectively). Scale-bars: a-i, 10 μm; j, 2 μm

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