Stains Flashcards
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PAS ( Periodic Scid Schiff)
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Pas the Sugar
Stains glycogen, mucopolysaccharides; used to diagnose Whipple Disease ( Tropheryma Whipplei)
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Giemsa
A
Certain Bugs Really Try My Patience
Chalmydia Borellia Rickettsiae
Trypanosomes Plasmodium
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Q
Ziehl-Neelsen (Carbol Fuchsin)
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Acid Fast Organism- Mycobacterium and Nocardia
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India Ink
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Cryptococcus Neoformans ( mucicarmine can also be used to stain thick polysaccharide capsule red)
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Silver Stain
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Fungi Like Pneumocystis
Legionella
H. Pylori