Methylene blue vital staining for Trypanosoma cruzi trypomastigotes and epimastigotes Coloração vital com azul de metileno aplicada a tripomastigotas e epimastigotas de Trypanosoma cruzi
The morphological identification of Trypanosoma cruzi is currently considered to have a high specificity, but its sensitivity, which depends on the volume of the sample examined, is rather low. Trypanosome developmental stages suspended in blood, reduviid feces, and culture media are routinely searc...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:b6ed9a5c237b485d976c6cf704c59110 2024-09-09T19:28:30+00:00 Methylene blue vital staining for Trypanosoma cruzi trypomastigotes and epimastigotes Coloração vital com azul de metileno aplicada a tripomastigotas e epimastigotas de Trypanosoma cruzi Cláudio S. Ferreira Rita C. Bezerra Ariadne A. Pinheiro 2006-12-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.1590/S0036-46652006000600009 https://doaj.org/article/b6ed9a5c237b485d976c6cf704c59110 EN eng Universidade de São Paulo (USP) http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0036-46652006000600009 https://doaj.org/toc/0036-4665 https://doaj.org/toc/1678-9946 doi:10.1590/S0036-46652006000600009 0036-4665 1678-9946 https://doaj.org/article/b6ed9a5c237b485d976c6cf704c59110 Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, Vol 48, Iss 6, Pp 347-349 (2006) Chagas disease Morphological identification of Trypanosoma cruzi Fresh blood films Buffy coat Methylene blue vital staining Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine RC955-962 Infectious and parasitic diseases RC109-216 article 2006 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.1590/S0036-46652006000600009 2024-08-05T17:49:30Z The morphological identification of Trypanosoma cruzi is currently considered to have a high specificity, but its sensitivity, which depends on the volume of the sample examined, is rather low. Trypanosome developmental stages suspended in blood, reduviid feces, and culture media are routinely searched for by means of fresh film examination (about 2 µL). High speed centrifugation of blood samples separates the buffy coat, where most trypomastigotes concentrate. As the parasites are transparent and colorless, their detection is mostly dependent on their motility. The fluorescent vital stain acridine orange has been used to enhance image contrast, as exemplified by the QBC (Quantitative Buffy Coat) technique. Staining blood, buffy coat, reduviid feces, and culture media samples with methylene blue (also a vital dye) is a means of producing sharp, well contrasted images of motile or non-motile T. cruzi developmental stages, only standard laboratory microscopes being required. Slides previously coated with a thin layer of methylene blue are used to stain fresh blood films. Photomicrographs exemplify the results of methylene blue staining applied to living and fixed parasites. A identificação morfológica de Trypanosoma cruzi tem alta especificidade, segundo é geralmente aceito; entretanto, sua sensibilidade, dependente do volume da amostra examinada, é baixa. Formas evolutivas de T. cruzi suspensas em sangue, fezes de reduviídeos e meios de cultura são rotineiramente pesquisadas em esfregaços a fresco (cerca de 2 µL). Centrifugação de amostras de sangue a altas velocidades produz a separação do creme leucocitário, onde se concentram as formas tripomastigotas. Em preparações a fresco, a motilidade das formas tripomastigotas e epimastigotas de T. cruzi, protozoário transparente e incolor, facilita sua detecção. Laranja de acridina, corante vital fluorescente, tem sido usada para acentuar o contraste das imagens de parasitas. Disto é exemplo a técnica QBC (Quantitative Buffy Coat). A coloração por meio de azul de ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Alta Arctic Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo 48 6 347 349 |
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Chagas disease Morphological identification of Trypanosoma cruzi Fresh blood films Buffy coat Methylene blue vital staining Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine RC955-962 Infectious and parasitic diseases RC109-216 Cláudio S. Ferreira Rita C. Bezerra Ariadne A. Pinheiro Methylene blue vital staining for Trypanosoma cruzi trypomastigotes and epimastigotes Coloração vital com azul de metileno aplicada a tripomastigotas e epimastigotas de Trypanosoma cruzi |
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The morphological identification of Trypanosoma cruzi is currently considered to have a high specificity, but its sensitivity, which depends on the volume of the sample examined, is rather low. Trypanosome developmental stages suspended in blood, reduviid feces, and culture media are routinely searched for by means of fresh film examination (about 2 µL). High speed centrifugation of blood samples separates the buffy coat, where most trypomastigotes concentrate. As the parasites are transparent and colorless, their detection is mostly dependent on their motility. The fluorescent vital stain acridine orange has been used to enhance image contrast, as exemplified by the QBC (Quantitative Buffy Coat) technique. Staining blood, buffy coat, reduviid feces, and culture media samples with methylene blue (also a vital dye) is a means of producing sharp, well contrasted images of motile or non-motile T. cruzi developmental stages, only standard laboratory microscopes being required. Slides previously coated with a thin layer of methylene blue are used to stain fresh blood films. Photomicrographs exemplify the results of methylene blue staining applied to living and fixed parasites. A identificação morfológica de Trypanosoma cruzi tem alta especificidade, segundo é geralmente aceito; entretanto, sua sensibilidade, dependente do volume da amostra examinada, é baixa. Formas evolutivas de T. cruzi suspensas em sangue, fezes de reduviídeos e meios de cultura são rotineiramente pesquisadas em esfregaços a fresco (cerca de 2 µL). Centrifugação de amostras de sangue a altas velocidades produz a separação do creme leucocitário, onde se concentram as formas tripomastigotas. Em preparações a fresco, a motilidade das formas tripomastigotas e epimastigotas de T. cruzi, protozoário transparente e incolor, facilita sua detecção. Laranja de acridina, corante vital fluorescente, tem sido usada para acentuar o contraste das imagens de parasitas. Disto é exemplo a técnica QBC (Quantitative Buffy Coat). A coloração por meio de azul de ... |
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Methylene blue vital staining for Trypanosoma cruzi trypomastigotes and epimastigotes Coloração vital com azul de metileno aplicada a tripomastigotas e epimastigotas de Trypanosoma cruzi |
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Methylene blue vital staining for Trypanosoma cruzi trypomastigotes and epimastigotes Coloração vital com azul de metileno aplicada a tripomastigotas e epimastigotas de Trypanosoma cruzi |
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Methylene blue vital staining for Trypanosoma cruzi trypomastigotes and epimastigotes Coloração vital com azul de metileno aplicada a tripomastigotas e epimastigotas de Trypanosoma cruzi |
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Methylene blue vital staining for Trypanosoma cruzi trypomastigotes and epimastigotes Coloração vital com azul de metileno aplicada a tripomastigotas e epimastigotas de Trypanosoma cruzi |
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Methylene blue vital staining for Trypanosoma cruzi trypomastigotes and epimastigotes Coloração vital com azul de metileno aplicada a tripomastigotas e epimastigotas de Trypanosoma cruzi |
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methylene blue vital staining for trypanosoma cruzi trypomastigotes and epimastigotes coloração vital com azul de metileno aplicada a tripomastigotas e epimastigotas de trypanosoma cruzi |
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