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A patient comes to the emergency department stating that he has fever and chills every 48 hours. The patient has a history of travel to Central America in the past month and did not take any preventative measures against malaria. A complete blood count shows the following RBC inclusions at 1000 ×\times . This organism is most likely  A patient comes to the emergency department stating that he has fever and chills every 48 hours. The patient has a history of travel to Central America in the past month and did not take any preventative measures against malaria. A complete blood count shows the following RBC inclusions at 1000 \times . This organism is most likely   A)  Plasmodium malariae. B)  P. ovale. C)  P. falciparum. D)  P. vivax.


A) Plasmodium malariae.
B) P. ovale.
C) P. falciparum.
D) P. vivax.

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