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Parasites Flashcards

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Purpose & principle for modified acid fast stain

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For Cryptosporidium parvum & C. hominis/Cyclospora cayetanensis with acid fast stain
Organism stains as bright red sphere, yeast stains green

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Purpose & principle for Wright Giemsa & Giemsa stain

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Primarily used to differentiate intracellular & extracellular circulatory blood parasites, viral & chlamydia inclusions, toxoplasmonic, P. jirovecki, Rickettsia

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Trichrome stain purpose & principle

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ID of Trophozoites, occasionally cysts & for confirmation of species

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H & E stain

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Primarily a tissue stain that may help ID parasites harboring in tissue

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