Hematological picture of pediatric Sudanese patients with visceral leishmaniasis and prediction of leishmania donovani parasite load

Figure 2 Bone marrow smears (Giemsa stain × 100). A: Reputed macrophage shedding Extracellular amastigotes, each with a prominent nucleus and kinetoplast (red arrows); B: Leishmania donovani bodies as intracytoplasmic, non-flagellated leishmania parasites (amastigotes), located intracellularly in macrophages (red arrows).