Fungi can grow in a number of different aqueous stain solutions. One time a
tech brought me a slide she had stained with GMS for fungi, together with the
positive control slide she had run. I could see fungi on the test slide but
there was no sign of silver staining. The control slide showed po
Have you checked your water source for contamination? We culture our DI
water regularly. Make sure you are culturing from the tap you actually
obtain the water from. We had this problem at another hospital a few
years ago and found contamination at the tap. Hope this helps.
Susan M Weber HT(ASCP)
We see this every once in a while, and have traced it to the water
stations on our stainer. They are supposed to be cleaned with bleach
once a week, but that wasn't happening. Another time, we had
contamination on the spigot of our 5 gallon deionized water bottle. We
are supposed to clean that w
We had a similar problem awhile back and traced it to our precut control
slides. We cut certain control slides ahead and store them in slide boxes. We
started seeing fungus where it should not have been. We were just cutting the
control slides, putting the wet slides into the boxes, covering
