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Cryptococcoma, mucicarmine staining, high power

Last updated on Thursday, March 26 2009 by gliageek

Cryptococcoma, mucicarmine staining, high power

Cryptococcus is unique among CNS infectious fungal organisms in that the mucopolysaccharide capsule stain strongly with mucicarmine histochemistry.

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Cryptococcoma, mucicarmine staining, high power with arrow

Cryptococcoma, mucicarmine staining, high power with arrow
This is a high-power image of a cryptococcoma (mass in the brain formed by the fungus Cryptococcus neoformans). The tissue is stained using mucicarmine staining, which stains the yeast capsule of Cryptococcus red. The unnecessarily large green arrow points to a red-stained Cryptococcus.

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