A COMBINED STAINING METHOD FOR MALARIAL PARASITES AND BLOOD SMEARS

Introducing a combined Leishman-Giemsa stain as a new staining technique for avian blood smears

Background: The use of conventional stains including Giemsa, Wright and Leishman have become an essential tool for differential diagnosis of cells in peripheral blood. Aims: The aim of the study was to develop a new combination of Leishman-Giemsa (L&G;) stain for avian blood smears and to compare its efficacy with conventional staining methods. Methods:<...

Rapid Staining of Malarial Parasites by a Water Soluble Stain

In recent years it has become increasingly difficult to purchase ingredients for the preparation of various modifications of Romanowsky stains, such as Giemsa, Leishman and Wright's, at a reasonable cost; if indeed they can be obtained at all. During the past year, work has been in progress in the laboratories of the Malaria Institute of India with the object of producing a stain in which readi...

Malarial Fevers and Malarial Parasites

Still Another Method of Staining Malaria Parasites

Exflagellation of malarial parasites in human peripheral blood.

Exflagellation of microgametocytes in malarial parasites is associated with the life cycle in the mosquito. However, it is not found with the usual developmental phases in humans. This report describes two case reports where exflagellation of microgametocytes was observed in vitro in patients documented to have Plasmodium vivax malaria.