I'm not sure about Fontana, but Grocott's is fine and Acridine Orange
technique of Erwin Haas works particularly fine. Never had a failure I'm
aware of with either of these, except the Acridine method is much easier to
visualise.
Regards Mike (Downunder)
-----Original Message-----
From: Bonnie Whitaker <bwhita@casper.med.uth.tmc.edu>
To: histonet <Histonet@Pathology.swmed.edu>
Date: Wednesday, 23 June 1999 10:05
Subject: stain for crypto


>Hi All!
>One of my pathologists has a lung biopsy that she suspects crypto in,
>however it did not stain with mucicarmine.  She read somewhere that
>Fontana-Masson would stain a strain of crypto that was muci negative....
can
>one of you biochemistry wizards explain to us what would be staining (if
>indeed this is correct) and shed any light on any special problems or
>techniques required here.
>Thanks,
>Bonnie Whitaker
>UT--Houston
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