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fluorochrome stain

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fluorochrome stain,
a fluorescent dye used to stain the cell walls of fungi and bacteria. The organisms then fluoresce when exposed to UV light rays. It is commonly used to visualize acid-fast bacilli (mycobacteria) in specimens. An example is acridine orange stain.


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Fluorescent and light microscopy is available for pathogen analysis through variable staining methodologies, ie, Gram stain, Wright/Giemsa stain, and specialized fluorochrome stains for specific pathogens.
Force health protection through laboratory analysis and health risk ... by Taylor, Patterson W.; Gordon, Scott W.; Hall, Tara L.; Kimm, Gregory L.; Tyner, Stuart D.; Van Horn, / U.S. Army Medical Department Journal
Fluorescence microscopy using fluorochrome stains can bring out several hundred reproducible transverse band patterns to identify individual chromosomes.
Photographing Chromosomes--The Colored Bodies by Rohde, Russell / PSA Journal
Restaining of fluorochrome slides Q Can fluorochrome stains be restained by one of the carbolfuchsin methods?
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