A review of Plasmodium ovale. Its life history, distribution, ultrastructure, relationship to …

• Summary
• Introduction
• Life history
• Distribution
• Laboratory diagnosis
• Serologic studies
• Molecular studies
• Infections in chimpanzees and monkeys
• Ultrastructure
• Relationships to other species
• Footnotes
• References
• Figures
• Tables

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- Plasmodium ovale: Parasite and Disease

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FIG. 1. Mean, 5th-percentile, and 95th-percentile parasitemia curves for 30 sporozoite-induced and 60 trophozoite-induced infections with Plasmodium ovale.

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FIG. 2. Exoerythrocytic stages of Plasmodium ovale in sections of liver from Saimiri boliviensis monkeys taken 7 days after injection of sporozoites.

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FIG. 3. Development of the erythrocytic stages of Plasmodium ovale. Sexual forms: macrogametocyte (panel 24) and microgametocyte (panel 25). Reproduced from Coatney et al. (20).

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FIG. 4. Erythrocytes from chimpanzees infected with Plasmodium ovale, showing marked distortion due to infection.

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Source: Clinical Microbiology Reviews, July 2005, p. 570-581, Vol. 18, No. 3