SELECTIVE STAINS HANDOUT Flashcards
Gray’s method
Flagella
Negative stains (3)
Anthony’s, India ink, Congo red
Spores are colored red
Dorner’s
Fontana Tribondeau method
Spirochetes are dark brown or black
Granules stain (4)
Albert’s, Neisser’s, LAMB, Lindegren’s volutin
Contains tannic acid
Gray’s mordant
LAMB meaning
Loeffler’s Alkaline Methylene Blue
Capsule stains methods
Hiss, Tyler’s, Muir’s
METHODS
Rickettsia and Chlamydia stains (4)
Giemsa, Machiavello, Giminez stain, Castañeda
Both Chlamydia and Rickettsia are red
Machiavello stain
Fungal structures are colored blue
Lactophenol cotton blue
Pasteurella stain
Wayson’s stain
Spores are colored green
Fulton Schaeffer’s method
PMDS meaning
Primary stain, mordant, decolorizer, secondary stain
Metallic silveron surface of spirochetes
Levaditi Silver Impregnation method