Is there any staining method to differentiate Reticulocytes and Parasites on the same slide ?
*I will like to stain Reticulocytes infected parasites.Which means that, I should be able to differentiate Reticulocytes and Normocytes (Mature RBC).
Chloé Warret Rodrigues
Hello,
I've never done it myself, but I happened to read this article. The team actually kept the parasites (Plasmodium) alive to be be able to easily differentiate them from the reticulocytes.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3614967/
I hope this will help :)
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María Linares
Using giemsa or wrights, you can try to differenciate young rings by morphology and mature forms by hemozoin.
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Gemechu Tadese
if you prepare thin film, you can easily apply wright stain and differentiate any parasite from the reticulocytes!
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