Plasmodium falciparum: Ring Stage Parasites

  • Fig. 1:  Normal red cell;  Figs. 2-10:  Increasingly mature ring stage parasites.
  • courtesy of the CDC and Coatney GR, Collins WE, Warren M, Contacos PG.  The Primate Malarias.  U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Bethesda, 1971.