Figures & data
Figure 2. High-power light photomicrograph of a section of lung from a mohua (Bird 4) which died due to infection with Plasmodium spp., showing swollen endothelial cells containing numerous intracytoplasmic protozoal organisms (arrows) (H&E, bar=10 µm).
Figure 3. Transmission electron micrograph of a section of lung from a mohua (Bird 5) which died due to infection with Plasmodium spp., showing a protozoal schizont containing numerous merozoites within a parasitophorus vacuole in the cytoplasm of an endothelial cell (E). The adjacent capillary (C) contains a nucleated erythrocyte (bar=5 µm).
Figure 4. Higher-power transmission electron micrographs of Plasmodium spp.-like merozoites within pulmonary endothelial cells of a mohua (Bird 5) which died due to infection with Plasmodium spp., demonstrating (a) a clump of merozoites showing polar rings (arrows) and a single mitochondria (M) behind the nucleus (N), and (b) a single merozoite with a pear-shaped rhoptry (R) and broken-down pellicular complex (P) (bars=0.5 µm).
