Question

In patient suffering from malaria, the cells having Schuffner's granules are

• A. Gametocytes
• B. Signet ring trophozoites
• C. Infected erythrocytes
• D. Infected liver cells

Answer 1

The correct option is C Infected erythrocytes

• Schuffner's dots refers to a haematological finding that is associated with malaria, exclusively found in infections caused by Plasmodium ovale or Plasmodium vivax.
• Plasmodium vivax induces morphologic alterations in infected host erythrocytes that are visible by light microscopy in Romanowski stained blood smears as multiple brick-red dots.
• These morphologic changes, referred to as Schüffner's dots, They are named for Wilhelm Schuffner, who described them in 1904.

So the correct answer is option C.