Brief Recording Archive Red-Cell-Staining Artifacts and How to Avoid Them Author: Richard E. Bettigole, M.D. Author Info & Affiliations Published November 26, 1964 N Engl J Med 1964;271: 1156 - 1157 ...

At present, blood stains are detected using the chemical luminol, which is sprayed around the crime scene and reacts with the iron in any blood present to emit a blue glow that can be seen in the ...

After adequate staining of peripheral blood smears with Giemsa or Wright’s stain, the Babesia parasites can be seen within erythrocytes as darkly-stained ring shapes with pale blue cytoplasm.

A heat-vision camera could one day help crime scene investigators photograph hidden bloodstains and other clues, scientists say. A prototype of such a device could detect blood diluted to as ...

IN blood smears from horses stained according to the ordinary methods Giemsa and May-Grünewald Giemsa, we encounter serious difficulties in the examination: first, to differentiate between large ...

Peripheral blood smear is easy to perform and relatively cost effective (under US$0.50 per smear [23]) but is laborious, time consuming and requires extensive training and proper quality control ...