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<span style="font-size:90%">The sexual form of the malarial parasite has either male or female form (a higher percentage are female). Generally male gametocytes (microgametocytes) are smaller then the female form (macrogametocytes).</br></br></span>
<span style="font-size:90%">The sexual form of the malarial parasite has either male (microgametocytes) or female form (macrogametocytes). Although biologically very important, these differences have little diagnostic significance but can certainly be observed on blood films and are interesting to observe.</br></br></span>
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Macrogametocytes and microgametocytes

The sexual form of the malarial parasite has either male (microgametocytes) or female form (macrogametocytes). Although biologically very important, these differences have little diagnostic significance but can certainly be observed on blood films and are interesting to observe.

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