list of special stains

• Special stains. Stains that give color to bacterial cell to demonstrate detailed parts of the bacteria
• List of capsule stain methods

  1. Hiss
  2. Tyler
  3. Muir
  4. Welch
  5. Novelli
• List of metachromatic stains

  1. Albert
  2. Neisser
  3. Lamb
  4. Lindergren
  5. Ljubinsky
• Flagella stains

  1. Leifson
  2. Gray method
  3. Silver technique
  4. Caesares gil
  5. Fisher and conn
• Endospore stains

  1. Fulton schaeffer
  2. Dorner
  3. Wirtz conklin
• Acridine orange uses fluorochrome dye that binds nucleic of bacteria
• Calcofluor white uses fluorochrome dye that binds cell wall of fungi (positive color: bright apple-green/bluewhite)
• India ink negative stain for capsule of fungi (pos+ color: no color of capsule  with dark background)
• lactophenol cotton blue. Stains fungal cell wall