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<span style=font-size:90%>'''Description'''</span> | <span style=font-size:90%>'''Description'''</span> | ||
<span style="font-size:90%>During their development malarial parasites metabolise the haemoglobin within erythrocytes to support their growth. | <span style="font-size:90%>During their development malarial parasites metabolise the haemoglobin within erythrocytes to support their growth. For infected cells at late stages of parasite development the red cell may have no visible haemoglobin. As part of that process the parasite must "detoxify" the iron component of the haem element. This process creates a detoxified iron containing protein "haemozoin" which is visible as pigment. This pigment is most visible at late stages of parasite development.</span> | ||
<span style="font-size:90%>'''Species significance'''</span> | <span style="font-size:90%>'''Species significance'''</span> | ||
<span style="font-size:90%>Pigment may vary in colour and may be clumped or scattered as individual small masses depending on species | <span style="font-size:90%>Pigment may vary in colour and may be clumped, or may be scattered as individual small masses depending on species. In some instances this distribution of pigment may help identify species (most obviously in the central clump seen in the "daisy head" schizonts of ''P.malariae''). Generally however, the colour and distribution of the pigment is less useful than other features in determining species.</span> | ||
Revision as of 13:12, 5 January 2025
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| Malaria Pigment (haemozoin)
A solid and angular late trophozoite form of P.malariae. Note the golden pigment in separate clumps of granules distributed over the parasite surface (arrowed).
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