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Table 1 Light microscopic blood slide findings in 1,180 fever patients examined at Ispat General Hospital, Rourkela, Odhisa, India

From: Comparing Leishman and Giemsa staining for the assessment of peripheral blood smear preparations in a malaria-endemic region in India

No of cases

Diagnosis

111

Malaria (Pf = 92, Pv = 2, Pf + Pv = 17)

202

Shift to left with toxic granulation of neutrophils

68

Atypical lymphocytes

5

Suggestive of infectious mononucleosis

1

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL)

793

No cause of fever could be determined