Investigation of a novel approach to scoring Giemsa-stained malaria-infected thin blood films-5

N arrows indicate unifected RBCs, and red arrows indicate infected RBCs. In this example the user has opted not to discriminate between the different stages of infected RBC. . A scored image of a human RBC culture experimentally infected with , captured at 600× magnification. In this example the user has chosen to specifically determine the number of trophozoites present (blue arrows), and infected cells at any other stage of development have simply been scored as 'infected RBC' (red arrows).<p><b>Copyright information:</b></p><p>Taken from "Investigation of a novel approach to scoring Giemsa-stained malaria-infected thin blood films"</p><p>http://www.malariajournal.com/content/7/1/62</p><p>Malaria Journal 2008;7():62-62.</p><p>Published online 21 Apr 2008</p><p>PMCID:PMC2358916.</p><p>