Modified detergent Ziehl-Neelsen technique for the staining of Cyclospora cayetanensis.
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Modified detergent Ziehl-Neelsen technique for the staining of Cyclospora cayetanensis.
Cyclospora cayetanensis is a cause of prolonged diarrhoea, mainly in travellers. Laboratory diagnosis may be achieved by a number of methods such as the staining of faecal smears by the modified Ziehl-Neelsen (ZN) technique. Safer methods using this technique have been described for the staining of acid fast bacilli and cryptosporidia by replacing the phenol content of the carbol fuschin stain ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Pathology
سال: 1996
ISSN: 0021-9746
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.49.6.511