Figure 1.
![Figure 1. Patient-blood smears. (A) case no. 1; (B) case no. 2. (A-B) Blood smears showing the patients' abnormal sickle cells, the transfused normal erythrocytes, and rare normal red cells with Plasmodium falciparum (arrows; Giemsa, original magnification × 1000, using a Plan-Apochromat 63×/1.4 NA oil objective, on an Olympus Provis AX70 microscope [Olympus, Tokyo, Japan]). Images were captured with a Nikon Coolpix 4500 digital camera (Nikon, Tokyo, Japan) and processed with Nikon View 5 Coolpix 5.1.3 (Nikon) and Adobe Photoshop 6.0 (Adobe Systems, San Jose, CA).](https://ash.silverchair-cdn.com/ash/content_public/journal/blood/106/13/10.1182_blood-2005-08-3109/2/zh80240588390001.jpeg?Expires=1736047346&Signature=BgQVtuoZ9bt5S9n1T~TuDmJJH4QkdDf9GuQiPStaYaVGJEwaVTQjFkmpd-V6KEMQaeMiCKgM6B0C5SBxm~ae5K~Z7FXQUvJYkslRJ6lyopXofy1pnN2en-hZZFwAjDb9ctr24uyGFh-AEz1EoWlWDbjrr1KXivCoBRT-tCBk1bFUueqrfWRYZQ-dbFoR0WohjCjFI59kRmaUrvez2EfCASE4N4DMu2zEKxs1pYIMQ9RbO2aLi2qlS5xm5BiMo3c7jf3S-VtzrRfYV~yMdAku0Y9HqRuZ2pEiTQGDwPkDwH8A00EoDuV6aYYUr0dTiaBHkNj0tNay47BOrB7um80WUw__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAIE5G5CRDK6RD3PGA)
Patient-blood smears. (A) case no. 1; (B) case no. 2. (A-B) Blood smears showing the patients' abnormal sickle cells, the transfused normal erythrocytes, and rare normal red cells with Plasmodium falciparum (arrows; Giemsa, original magnification × 1000, using a Plan-Apochromat 63×/1.4 NA oil objective, on an Olympus Provis AX70 microscope [Olympus, Tokyo, Japan]). Images were captured with a Nikon Coolpix 4500 digital camera (Nikon, Tokyo, Japan) and processed with Nikon View 5 Coolpix 5.1.3 (Nikon) and Adobe Photoshop 6.0 (Adobe Systems, San Jose, CA).
