Figure 1
Leishmania amastigotes in intracellular, revealed in a Giemsa-stained bone marrow smears. Amastigotes of Leishmania are spherical to ovoid and measure 1-5 μm long by 1-2 μm wide. They possess a large nucleus, a prominent kinetoplast, and a short axoneme, the last of which is rarely visible by light microscopy.