PubMed Health⌕ Search

SEARCH · PubMed Health

Results for “Fluorescence Microscopy”

Explore indexed PubMed citations for clinical trials, systematic reviews and public health research. Read source abstracts and follow each citation to its original PubMed record.

Quote a phrase for an exact phrase match. Source license links do not imply unrestricted reuse.

At least 739 records · Page 41Linked to original sources
PubMed1983

Detection of Borrelia in acridine orange-stained blood smears by fluorescence microscopy.

Tick-borne borreliosis (relapsing fever) can be an important, unsuspected cause of febrile illness. The diagnosis is generally made by identifying Borrelia spirochetes in stained peripheral blood smears. Since Borrelia may be difficult to detect with Romanowsky stains, an alternative method, using acridine orange (AO), was used to screen blood smears. Duplicate blood smears of seven patients were examined with the AO technique and Romanowsky stains. In all seven cases spirochetes were easily identified with the AO-stained smears compared with only five cases with Romanowsky stains. In a double-blind laboratory experiment, six of ten duplicate smears from a single patient with mild spirochetemia were positive by AO, whereas only two of ten were positive by Romanowsky stain. We concluded that the AO stain is simple, rapid and more sensitive than Romanowsky methods for detecting cases of low-level spirochetemia.

Acridine Orange↗
PubMed1978

[Vitality studies in bone marrow cells by means of fluorescence microscopy].

In assessing the vitality of bone-marrow cells vital fluorochroming with acridine orange allows a differential, qualitative statement to be made about the degree of cell damage and in addition the single cell compartments to be relatively well differentiated in morphological respect. The stain exclusion test made for the purpose of comparison merely enables an approximate, quantitative evaluation to be obtained.

Acridines↗