identifying bacteria that dont require staining
- useful for detecting motility
saline mount
Primarily used to observe motility
Hanging Drop Technique
visualize structures like cell walls, cysts, and starch in microorganisms or samples
iodine mount
Iodine solution
Lugol’s iodine
diagnosing fungal infections, breaks down the tissue surrounding the fungal mycelia to allow a better view of the hyphal forms
10% potassium hydroxide preparation
india ink or nigrosine
demonstration of capsule
used to detect treponema pallidum
darkfield microscopy
useful in unstained specimens
phase contrast