Fig. 6

Blood stages of four Plasmodium spp. found in this study. The lineage pDENVID01 (a–d): note small meronts possessing a retractable globule (a), growing meronts possessing outgrowth (b) and mature macrogametocytes (c) and microgametocytes (d) with amoeboid outline; microgametocytes possess big haemozoin pigment granules. The lineage pRAMVIT01 (e–h): note small meronts and retractable globules (e, f), and gametocytes usually found in polar and subpolar position in infected cell and possessing distinct prominent nuclei (g, h). The lineage pSALAT01 (i–l): it was identified by phylogenetic analysis as a Novyella lineage, but the infected host had mixed infection with another Plasmodium lineage; small meronts (i), a feature of Novyella subgenus and growing meronts (j) and gametocytes (k, l) with Haemamoeba morphological characteristics. The lineage pNYCNYC01 (m–p): phylogenetic analysis has identified it a lineage of Haemamoeba subgenus; it has meronts with prominent cytoplasm and they displace the nucleus of infected erythrocytes (m–o), the same characteristic can be seen in mature microgametocytes (p). Scale bar 10 µm. Triangle merozoites. Long arrow parasite nuclei. Small arrow haemozoin pigment. Arrow head merozoite