双语教学

Explain of Infection

5. Cryptococcus neoformans, cerebrospinal fluid, India ink preparation, microscopic

The best way to make the diagnosis of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia is to perform a Gomori methenamine silver (GMS) stain on the lung tissue or bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid. The cyst wall is stained, and the organisms appear as crushed ping-pong balls, or crescent shapes, or folded spheres, or flattened beach balls, or deflated tennis balls, or….

（本图片资料来源自美国犹他大学）