Giemsa stain

Giemsa stained Trypanosoma parasites (Chagas disease pathogen)
Whirling disease section stained with Giemsa stain

Giemsa stain (/ˈɡiːmzə/), named after German chemist and bacteriologist Gustav Giemsa, is a nucleic acid stain used in cytogenetics and for the histopathological diagnosis of malaria and other parasites.[1]

  1. ^ Zipfel, E.; Grezes, J. -R.; Naujok, A.; Seiffert, W.; Wittekind, D. H.; Zimmermann, H. W. (1984). "Über Romanowsky-Farbstoffe und den Romanowsky-Giemsa-Effekt". Histochemistry. 81 (4): 337–351. doi:10.1007/bf00514328. ISSN 0301-5564. PMID 6210276.