Fig. 2From: The buffy coat method: a tool for detection of blood parasites without staining proceduresImages of relatively large blood parasites (larger than red blood cells) showing how they look in the buffy coat wet preparations (a, c, e, g) and methanol-fixed Giemsa-stained blood films (b, d, f, h). a, b Leucocytozoon sp. (barbed long arrow, red blood cell; simple long arrow, parasite nucleus). c, d Microfilaria. e, f Trypanosoma sp. (barbed long arrow, red blood cells; short arrow, undulating membrane; arrowhead, kinetoplast; simple long arrow, parasite nucleus). g, h Trypanosoma everetti (short arrow, undulating membrane; arrowhead, kinetoplast). Scale-bar: 10 µmBack to article page