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A thin blood smear from a patient suspected of having malaria reveals numerous normal size erythrocytes without stippling but with ring stages, many with multiple ring stages and applique forms. Several erythrocytes show developing trophozoites that are spread across the erythrocytes in a band fashion. Which of the following is the most likely cause of infection?

APlasmodium vivax
BPlasmodium malariae
CPlasmodium ovale
DA mixed infection with two Plasmodium species
Microbiology
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