Thermo Scientific™
Remel™ BactiDrop Calcofluor White
Catalog number: R21507
Detect fungi, yeasts, Microsporidia, Acanthamoeba, and Pneumocystis carinii using Thermo Scientific™ Remel™ BactiDrop™ Calcofluor White fluorescent stain. In 1961, Darken observed the uptake of calcofluor white by actively growing cultures of yeast and higher fungi1. Hageage and Harrington used calcofluor white (CFW) to demonstrate hyphae and yeasts in clinical specimens2. Baselski and Robison reported the use of CFW to detect P. carinii cysts3. Wilhelmus et al. demonstrated the fluorescence of Acanthamoeba keratitis4. Weber et al. reported CFW also stains microsporidia spores5.