Luna stain, an improved selective stain for detection of microsporidian spores in histologic sections

Diseases of Aquatic Organisms

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 175-180

  Peterson, Tracy S ^a   Spitsbergen, Jan M ^a   Feist, Stephen W ^b   Kent, Michael L ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chitin; Gram stain; Luna stain; Microsporidia; Pseudoloma neurophilia; Selective stains

Indexed keywords

COLORING AGENT;

AGGREGATION; ARTHROPOD; BIOASSAY; CHITIN; CRAB; HISTOLOGY; SPORE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRACHYURA; CHEMISTRY; FISH; FUNGUS SPORE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROSPORIDIA; MYCOSIS; MYTILUS; PHYSIOLOGY; STAINING;

ANIMALS; BRACHYURA; COLORING AGENTS; FISHES; MICROSPORIDIA; MYCOSES; MYTILUS; SPORES, FUNGAL; STAINING AND LABELING;

ARTHROPODA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); ERIOCHEIR SINENSIS; GLUGEA ANOMALA; GLUGEA SP.; INVERTEBRATA; LOMA SALMONAE; MICROSPORIDIA; NUCLEOSPORA SALMONIS; PLEISTOPHORA; PSEUDOLOMA NEUROPHILIA; STEINHAUSIA MYTILOVUM;

EID: 79959204939     PISSN: 01775103     EISSN: 16161580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/dao02346     Document Type: Article

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