Question :
"A film prepared from the blood of a boy who returned to his boarding school following the summer holidays and developed a fever soon afterwards. The provisional diagnosis on the request form was ""?glandular fever"". What do you see?"
Answer : "Two ring forms of Plasmodium falciparum are shown. Routine examination of thick and thin films remains a sound procedure for the diagnosis of malaria despite the development of ""alternative"" methods. The real problem with making the diagnosis is failure to think of it in the first place."
"A film prepared from the blood of a boy who returned to his boarding school following the summer holidays and developed a fever soon afterwards. The provisional diagnosis on the request form was ""?glandular fever"". What do you see?"
Answer : "Two ring forms of Plasmodium falciparum are shown. Routine examination of thick and thin films remains a sound procedure for the diagnosis of malaria despite the development of ""alternative"" methods. The real problem with making the diagnosis is failure to think of it in the first place."
