Test Characteristics of Acridine Orange, Gram, and May-Grünwald-Giemsa Stains for Enumeration of Intracellular Organisms in Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid

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1 February 1999

journal article
research article
Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Vol. 37 (2) , 427-429
https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.37.2.427-429.1999

Abstract

For enumeration of intracellular organisms (ICO) in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid samples, the May-Grünwald-Giemsa (MGG) stain displayed higher interobserver agreement than the acridine orange and Gram stains. The MGG stain offered a reliable enumeration of ICO when 200 cells were counted by one observer.

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