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USMLE Step 1

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Stain
Organism(s)
Ziehl Neelsen   acid fast bacteria, i.e. Mycobacterium tuberculosis  
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India Ink   Cryptococcus neoformans  
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Giemsa   Borrelia, Plasmodium, Trypanosomes, Chlamydia also blood smears  
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Periodic Acid-Schiff (PAS)   tests for glycogen & mucopolysaccharides, used to dx Whipple's disease from the bacterium Tropheryma whipplei  
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Prussian blue   blue dye test to detect Fe  
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Congo red   stains amyloid red & causes amyloid to take up apple-green birefringence when viewed under polarized light microscope  
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Osmic acid   fixative & stain for EM  
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Gram stain   + for thick peptidoglycan (blue-violet) vs. - for thin peptidoglycan (pink-red)  
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