1. Current strategies to avoid misdiagnosis of malaria
T. Hänscheid 
Clinical Microbiology and Infection 
Volume 9, Issue 6, Pages (June 2003)
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2. Figure 1
Granularity/lobularity plot of the Cell-Dyn 3700 full blood count analyzer, (a) Patient without malaria. (b) Patient with P. falciparum malaria, showing the typical appearance of hemozoin-containing monocytes in the eosinophil area (purple arrow). Note the abnormal eosinophil distribution with some events at the top of the plot (green arrow), most likely hemozoin-containing granulocytes, misclassified as eosinophils. Granularity = 90° depolarized light scatter; lobularity = 90° light scatter; eosinophils = green dots; lymphocytes = blue dots; monocytes = purple dots; granulocytes = orange dots.
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3. Figure 2
Time of malaria smears, Lisbon, Portugal (n = 169). Malaria smears were requested at a large Accident & Emergency Department, where around 500 patients are seen daily.
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4. Figure 3
Distribution of parasitemia in 69 consecutive malaria cases, Lisbon. Solid black bars represent cases where low-level parasitemia may cause difficulty in microscopic diagnosis, especially if only thin smears are used. 0.01% = 1 parasitized erythrocyte in erythrocytes ≈ 1 parasitized erythrocyte in 40–50 microscopic fields of a thin smear.
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