Dark-ground microscopy of stained leptospires

Authors: Fowler GF
Publication: New Zealand Veterinary Journal, Volume 24, Issue 1-2, pp 24, Jan 1967
Publisher: Taylor and Francis

Animal type: Livestock
Subject Terms: Bacterial, Diagnostic procedures, Zoonosis, Disease/defect, Infectious disease, Public health
Article class: Correspondence

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Abstract: Staining of dried smears containing spirochaetes with Giemsa or other Romanowsky dyes and examining the smears under bright-ground illumination is an elementary microscopical technique. Making wet films under cover-glasses and examining them under dark-ground illumination is another simple method applied to spirochaetes. These are techniques well known to all workers in microscopy…

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