Infections with Plasmodium ovale Stephens in Southern Rhodesia

Abstract

1. 1. Infections with Plasmodium ovale are reported from Southern Rhodesia for the first time. 2. 2. The ovale characteristic of the infected red cell is indicated by cell measurements. 3. 3. The characteristics of the parasite are discussed on the lines of Stephens and Owen 's original paper. 4. 4. An association between ovale infections and quartan and benign tertian infections is noted.