[Histonet] Giemsa Stain

[Rene J Buesa]

Giemsa, as any other stain, is just that, a stain, and stains do not (cannot) have "internal controls".
  As with any other HC procedure you have to use a positive control along with your tissue.
  To completely demonstrate that your Giemsa procedure worked as expected, you coul use a blood smear or an appendix section as controls. That will depend on your pathologist's whims.
  René J.

Schaundra Walton <schaundrawalton <@t> yahoo.com> wrote:
  We've been using a Giemsa stain for our H. pylori cases without a control tissue. It has come to my attention that this may not be good practice. I was under the impression that the Giemsa stain had an internal control. Is anyone else using a this stain for H. pylori? Are you running a tissue control with it?


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