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<span style="font-size:140%; color:navy">'''Gallery of Schizonts'''</br></span>
<span style="font-size:90%">''' ''P.falciparum'' '''</span></br>
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<span style="font-size:90%">Loose and often "tatty" appearances with 16 or more merozoites and clumped pigment when mature. Rare in blood as they sequesterin tissues and circulating form may appear degenerate. Images show mature forms.</br>
<span style="font-size:90%">Schizont morphology is variable as they progress from late trophoxoites, dividing their chromatin into seprate distict masses (usually a schizont is defined by have more than two masses to distinguish them from rings with double dots). The morphological variability then continues as the merozoites separate before release. However, despite this, some features such as erythocyte size and shape, added dots, pigment distribution and the number of merozoites present can still be useful (as can the fact that they are rarely seen in ''P.falciparum''.</br></br>
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File:PFS1p.jpg|<span style="font-size:80%">Variable merozoite number, clumped pigment</span>|link={{filepath:PFS1p.jpg}}
File:PFS2p.jpg|<span style="font-size:80%">Degenerate small merozoite</span>|link={{filepath:PFS2p.jpg}}
File:PFS3p.jpg|<span style="font-size:80%">Large merozoites</span>|link={{filepath:PFS3p.jpg}}
File:PFS4p.jpg|<span style="font-size:80%">Large merozoites</span>|link={{filepath:PFS4p.jpg}}</gallery>"
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P.falciparum
Loose and often "tatty" appearances with 16 or more merozoites and clumped pigment when mature. Rare in blood as they sequesterin tissues and circulating form may appear degenerate. Images show mature forms.

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