Communicable Diseases

Morphology of Plasmodium Ovale

Plasmodium ovale is a species of malaria first described in 1914 by Stephens from a blood sample taken from a patient in Pachmarhi, Madhya Pradesh, India, during the autumn of 1913. It was initially confused with P. vivax (Pv) due to its tertian fever pattern (temperature returns every 48 hours) and morphological similarity. It was […]