Microbiology
Magenta II
It is a component of basic fuchsin stain together with pararosaniline and rosaniline.
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Category: Microbiology
Microbiology
Pararosaniline
It is a component of basic fuchsin stain together with rosaniline and magenta II.
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Microbiology
Basic Fuchsin
It is a mixture of rosaniline, pararosaniline and Magenta II used in bacteriological staining procedures. It is a component of carbol fuchsin used in gram staining and Zheil
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Microbiology
Carbol Fuchsin
Mixture of basic fuchsin and phenol. It is a component of Zheil Neelson stain used in staining acid fast organisms. It has a high affinity for mycolic acid
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Microbiology
Gentian violet
Also called methyl violet, crystal violet, hexamethyl pararosaniline chloride. It is the agent used in the gram staining procedure. It is also an antifungal agent.
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Microbiology
Acid fast staining procedure
Acid fast staining procedure is used for the demonstration of acid fast microorganisms mainly Mycobacterium tuberculosis.The poperty of acid fastness is due to the presence of certain lipids
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Microbiology
Special stain for Lepra bacillus
Wade Fite stain
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Medicine
Weil Felix Reaction
It is a heterophile agglutination test used for the serodiagnosis of typhus fever. It is based on the principle that the agglutinins present in the serum of patients
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Medicine
Brill-Zinsser disease
Brill-Zinsser disease is the recrudescence of epidemic typhus in persons who earlier suffered from the disease. It is characterised by fever, transient rash and fall in blood pressure. It
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