Flash Dip Fine Needle Aspiration (FNA)/Helicobacter Pylori Stain Kit is a high quality, rapid turnaround time staining kit that serves many purposes in the cost conscious laboratory environment. The Flash Dip FNA/H. Pylori kit may be used for rapid blood smears for differential assessment, as well as detecting the H. pylori microorganism. The stain is very useful to pathologists for immediate interpretation of fine needle aspiration biopsies. The kit contains a fixative for air-dried cell suspensions and/or touch preparation slides.
Useful in such applications as:
- Fine Needle Aspirations
- Frozen Sections
- Blood Smears
- Cytological Specimens
- Cytopreps
- Bone Marrow Biopsies
- Touch Preps
- Microorganism Detection
Advantages:
- Interpret results in 15 seconds
- Easy to visualize nuclear and cytoplasmic staining
- Differential stain designed to show virtually all
dermapathology cells
- Rapid stain for immediate interpretation of fine needle
aspiration biopsies
- Optimal as a hematology stain
- Excellent cytologic detail
- Consistently reliable results
- Detect blood-borne malarial parasites
- 2 convenient kit sizes to choose from; 250ml and 500ml
Kit Components:
1. Solution A - Fixative
2. Solution B - Blue
3. Solution C - Red
References:
1. Diagnosis of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia by bronchoalvolar lavage in AIDS patients. Comparison of Diff-Quik, fungifluor stain, direct immunofluorescence test and polymerase chain reaction; Acta Cytol, 1995 Nov-Dec, 39(6) 1089-93
2. Diff-Quik Stain as a Simplified Alternative to Papanicolaou Stain for Determination of Quality of Endocervical Specimens Submitted for PCR Detection of Chlamydia trachomatis; Journal of Clinical Microbiology, Oct 1996, p. 2590-2592