Related Experiment Videos
Rapid detection of Pneumocystis carinii in bronchoalveolar lavage samples by using Cellufluor staining
V S Baselski1, M K Robison, L W Pifer
1Department of Pathology, University of Tennessee, Memphis 38163.
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|February 1, 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 with 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.