The correct answer is C, ingested red blood cells.  The pathogenic E. histolytica and the nonpathogenic E. dispar are morphologically indistinguishable, except when ingested red blood cells are present.  This feature is known as erythrophagocytosis and it is diagnostic for E. histolytica.

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