Oh My STAIN! Flashcards
Mordant
GRAM’S IODINE
Decolorizer
ETHYL ALCOHOL or ACETONE
Counterstain
SAFRANIN
Treponema pallidum
DARKFIELD MICROSCOPY
Too thin to see
Rickettsiae
GIEMSA STAIN
Intracellular, very small
Legionella pneumoniae
SILVER STAIN
Mycobacterium
ACID FAST
Chlamydia
CYTOPLASMIC INCLUSION BODIES GIEMSA
Primary stain
CRYSTAL VIOLET
CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS
INDIA INK
Pneumocystis
SILVER STAIN
Borrelia
WRIGHT STAIN
Giemsa
Pneumocystis carinii
GOMORI METHENAMINE STAIN
Acid fast organism
AURAMINE RHODAMINE DYE
KINYOUN
Fungi
CALCIFLOUR WHITE
Herpes
TZANCK SMEAR
MTB
ZIEHL NIELSEN
Whipple’s disease
TROPHERYMA WHIPPELI
PAS (glycogen)
Hemoflagellates
GIEMSA
Malaria
GIEMSA
Trypanosome
GIEMSA
Chlamydia
GIEMSA
Plasmodium
GIEMSA
Carbon Fushsin Method
ZIEHL NEELSEN METHOD
KINYOUN METHOD
CARBOL FUSHSIN ACID METHOD