The examination of a well-stained film of either clinical material or organisms grown in laboratory media constitutes an important part of most investigations in hospital microbiology laboratories. The staining of large numbers of microscope slides, usually by Gram's method, is however timeconsuming, and a number of reports have been made on methods mechanising this procedure. Cremer (1968) and...

Although such features are useful, they are not unique to this text and do not distinguish it as a good atlas. Its main attraction resides in its grouping of matched pairs of light micrographs and electron micrographs of serial sections of the same specimen, each shown at the same magnification and with identical labels. While this organization may seem redundant at first, the approach may prov...

Objects seen through the microscope by transmitted light are translucent in differing degrees. Staining gives a measure of differential opacity and contrast to biological material but, even here, the appearance, like that of an x-ray picture, is a record of relative opacities. Varying the focal plane, of course, allows a range of optical sections, and from this the surface appearance can be inf...

We studied parasite detectability in thick films by an acridine orange fluorescence technique (AO) to test its applicability and the use of a Malaria Diagnosis Microscope (MDM)-ESL in the detection of parasites, compared to the conventional Giemsa staining method. This study was conducted on 1,390 clinically suspected malaria cases of Thaton township, Myanmar. We found sensitivities of 82.8% fo...