[Histonet] Forwarding Request for Control Mehtod

[WILLIAM DESALVO]

> I wonder if you could help me find someone who would kindly donate a
> paraffin tissue block containing candida or other fungi to be used as a
> control block. We have had difficulty in obtaining such tissue and have
> tried all the hospitals in northern Ireland for a tissue block suitable
> enough to act as a control. Many of the pathology departments are in the
> same position as ourselves in that the control tissue being used is
> getting in short supply. 
> 
> I tried to make one using a culture from microbiology with fresh lambs
> lung from a local abattoir but unfortunately the tissue seems to stain
> with PAS as well and the candida where obscured although visible
> probably due to post mortem changes in the tissue.
 
> Alternatively have any of your members successfully produced fungal
> control material by other means. 
> 
> Thanking you in advance
 
> Ian Clarke
> Biomedical Scientist
> Cellular Pathology Department
> Craigavon Area Hospital 
> Sothern Health and Social Services Trust.
> 66 Lurgan Road
> Craigavon
> BT63 5QQ
> Northern Ireland


William DeSalvo, B.S., HTL(ASCP)



 		 	   		  
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