Severe Malaria: A Case of a Significant Rapid Rise in the Parasite Level

Figure 1

Thin peripheral blood smear: blue arrow showing signet-ring of Plasmodium falciparum in a red blood cell; (a) parasitemia level of 1.6%, (b) parasitemia level of 7.6%, (c) parasitemia level of 12.24%, (d) parasitemia level of 0.1%.

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