Many opportunistic infections develop in the immunosuppressed patient suffering from AIDS. A number of these are caused by various fungal species including Candida, Aspergillus, Histoplasma, and Coccidioides. The Fungi-Fluor Kit for Fungal Detection offers a quick fluorescent stain/counterstain procedure for various fungal organisms. The kit can be used to screen a variety of specimen types from sputum to skin scrapings for fungal detection.

Product is sold in Europe under Catalog # 17442E

Product is sold in the U.S. and outside of Europe under Catalog # 17442

Advantages:

• More accurate than KOH preps
• Rapidly offers greater morphologic detail than PAS or silver stains
• Counterstain greatly reduces background fluorescence
• One kit stains over 500 slides

Specimen types:

• Fresh or frozen clinical specimen
• Paraffin or GMA-embedded tissues