Acridine orange staining of Pneumocystis carinii
- 1 July 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 16 (1) , 191-192
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.16.1.191-192.1982
Abstract
Acridine orange was used to stain smears of mouse lung which contained cyst and trophozoite forms of Pneumocystis carinii. Trophozoite forms stained yellow to orange; however, cyst forms did not stain. Acridine orange is a rapid and sensitive method for demonstrating trophozoites of P. carinii in mouse lung tissue.This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
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