Field stain
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field-stain-217-56885
title:
Field stain
text:
Field stain is a histological method for staining of blood smears. It is used for staining thick blood films in order to discover malarial parasites. Field's stain is a version of a Romanowsky stain, used for rapid processing of the specimens. Field's stain consists of two parts - Field's stain A is methylene blue and Azure 1 dissolved in phosphate buffer solution; Field's stain B is Eosin Y in buffer solution. Field stain is named after physician John William Field, who developed it in 1941.
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original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_stain
date created:
2005-12-28T13:00:42Z
date modified:
2024-09-13T05:17:58Z
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