Lactophenol Blue is one of the reagents most commonly used as a part of standard methods of microscopic fungi analysis.
It is used for preparing semipermanent and permanent microscopic sections that have the fungus cytoplasm stained, creating a bright blue background. That enables detecting hyphal cell wall and other fungal structures that are stained dark blue. The solution consists of four components: phenol (fungicide that causes cellular protein precipitation and inactivation of enzyme systems), lactic acid (acts as a clearing medium),
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