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

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Certain Bugs Really Try My Patience

Chalmydia Borellia Rickettsiae
Trypanosomes Plasmodium

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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

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