Rapid detection of Pneumocystis carinii in bronchoalveolar lavage samples by using Cellufluor staining
- 1 February 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 28 (2) , 393-394
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.28.2.393-394.1990
Abstract
Cellufluor (Calcofluor white) has been found to be a useful, rapid chemofluorescent stain for detection of Pneumocystis carinii cysts in bronchoalveolar lavage samples. When compared wtih toluidine blue O and Giemsa stains on 45 specimens (22 positive and 23 negative), the sensitivity and specificity of the Cellufluor stain were 95 and 100%, respectively.This publication has 17 references indexed in Scilit:
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