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=1724276372&Signature=WzqwbAruXxuCL-TWuESQDXdV4rZpAPkJnbhDMHTwc6HCstqC1xLJXSl6Eg3Yp4P6IVc0LwRjcd6D0kpmH3awQUzDLs34Subc4-DgGR6ZkPTsgDZD5r6f1CTVTu2kfmnmPwDhEM~sp7oyT1vGlaJqk~hwRa8ZL~rhPwLHpP-NYV3An9rUUHbS0tRKmn6Rq67bKTFYNxWA0bN3TKJ4re0E~erupdJNuPmZTU1rr2vrVPn7j4eT69cN2V6LjmQZ3QqJ73bmsSn-DiekbDY2iBKXz-IrR-Mt90AppFtPhLdwCsM1DKqJp9c6QRpP2kMGPZBLwG8mghoSK1VRnvvjGZfF7Q__&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).
