Test characteristics of acridine orange, gram, and May-Grunwald-Giemsa stains for enumeration of intracellular organisms in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid

Authors
De Brauwer, E Jacobs, J Nieman, F Bruggeman, C Drent, M
Citation
E. De Brauwer et al., Test characteristics of acridine orange, gram, and May-Grunwald-Giemsa stains for enumeration of intracellular organisms in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid, J CLIN MICR, 37(2), 1999, pp. 427-429
Citations number
15
Categorie Soggetti
Clinical Immunolgy & Infectious Disease",Microbiology
Journal title
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY
ISSN journal
00951137 → ACNP
Volume
37
Issue
2
Year of publication
1999
Pages
427 - 429
Database
ISI
SICI code
0095-1137(199902)37:2<427:TCOAOG>2.0.ZU;2-L
Abstract
For enumeration of intracellular organisms (ICO) in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid samples, the May-Grunwald-Giemsa (MGG) stain displayed higher interob server agreement than the acridine orange and Gram stains. The MGG stain of fered a reliable enumeration of ICO when 200 cells were counted by one obse rver.