Doctors use thick and thin blood smears to determine whether you have malaria. If one test is negative and no parasites are found, you will have repeated blood smears every 8 hours for a couple of days to confirm that there is no malaria infection.Blood smears are taken most often from a finger prick.Thick and thin blood smears will let doctors know the percentage of red blood cells that are infected (parasite density) and what type of parasites are present. 1  A thick blood smear is a drop of blood on a glass slide.2  A thin blood smear is a drop of blood that is spread across a large area of the slide. (Often there are few parasites in the blood at the time the test is done.). 2  A thin blood smear is a drop of blood that is spread across a large area of the slide. 3  Thin blood smears helps doctors discover what species of malaria is causing the infection.
Subsequent generations diverged to reflect market variations, and Honda built a plant in Lincoln, Alabama, incorporating the ability to manufacture larger models. Since model year 1999, Honda has marketed a larger (large MPV-class) Odyssey in North America and a smaller Odyssey in Japan and other markets. Honda also offered the larger North American Odyssey in Japan as Honda LaGreat between 1999 and 2005. Both versions of the Odyssey were sold in Japan at Honda Clio dealership locations.
2017 Honda Odyssey Could Get All-Wheel-Drive Option. SAN MARCOS, California â Honda is giving serious consideration to offering all-wheel drive on its redesigned 2017 Honda Odyssey minivan and future car models, Edmunds has learned. We are looking at it for the entire vehicle line, John Mendel, executive vice president of American Honda, told Edmunds in a recent interview.