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Giemsa stain
Stain used for diagnosis of malaria / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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]
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