Control Slides
Control Slides
Our Staining Control Slides are microscope slide preparations containing specific organism populations with known and predictable characteristics. These slides support formal quality assurance programs by serving as quality control challenges to verify performance of stain reagents, staining methods, and the performance of personnel interpreting microscopic examinations. This quality control slide provides two air-dried and methanol-fixed droplets within two etched circles. 10 per box. See table below for range.
Q Slides
A convenient ready-to-stain control slide that will test both your stain solutions and your staining techniques. Positive and negative stain control organisms are affixed to the circles in each Q-Slide™. Up to four patient specimens (in the squares) may be processed at the same time as the QC organisms. 10 per box. See table below for range.
| Control Slide | Description | Product Code |
| Blood Parasite | Quality control slides with 1 or 2 droplets air-dried and methanol-fixed micro-organism, of a single smear of either Babesia, Plasmodium, or Trypanosoma. | CBSL9010 |
| Intestinal Protozoa, Zinc PVA | Each slide has a single air-dried, Zinc PVA preserved, faecal smear with representative intestinal protozoa (two or more). | CBSL1010 |
| Intestinal Protozoa, SAF | Each slide has a single air-dried, SAF preserved, faecal smear with representative intestinal protozoa (two or more). | CBSL1510 |
| Cryptosporidium | This quality control slide provides a single, air-dried and methanol-fixed faecal smear containing Acid Fast-Positive Cryptosporidium and Acid Fast- Negative intestinal bacteria. Slides contain an etched circle. | CBSL4510 |
| Microsporidium | This quality control slide provides two air-dried and methanol-fixed droplets within two etched circles. The positive circle contains Microsporidium species and the negative contains a budding yeast. | CBSL8010 |
| Pneumocystis | This quality control slide provides a single air-dried and methanol-fixed smear tissue preparation containing Pneumocystis, for the QC of microscopic detection of tissue parasites. | CBSL7010 |
| Pneumocystis carinii | This quality control slide provides two air-dried and methanol-fixed tissue preparations for the QC of microscopic detection of tissue parasites. One smear is positive for Pneumocystis carinii, while the other is negative. | CBSL7510 |
| Acid-Fast | The circle nearest the label contains a droplet of an Acid Fast-Positive Mycobacterium. The other contains an Acid Fast-Positive Cryptosporidium in a faecal smear sample and Acid Fast-Negative intestinal bacteria. | CBSL4010 |
| Q-Slide AFB | For your Acid Fast Bacillus Stain QC; either Kinyoun or Ziehl Neelson. Contains Mycobacterium gordonae as a positive control and a Corynebacterium spp. as a negative control. | CBZ301 |
| Q-Slide Gram | For your Gram Stain QC. Contains E.coli as a gram-negative control, and a Staphylococcus aureus as a gram-positive control. | CBZ302 |
| Gram Stain | Each slide has two separate air-dried, methanol-fixed droplets of Gram-positive Staphylococcus aureus and Gram-negative Escherichia coli within two etched circles. | CBSL0110 |
| GC Slide Control | Kwik-QC GC Stain Slide. Positive is N. gonorrhoeae, negative is C. albicans and S. aureus. | CBSL0410 |
| Mycobacterium & Cryptosporidium | The circle nearest the label contains a droplet of an Acid Fast-Positive Mycobacterium. The other contains an Acid Fast-Positive Cryptosporidium in a faecal smear sample & Acid Fast-Negative intestinal bacteria. | CBSL4010 |
| Mycology, FYC | This quality control slide provides a single air-dried and methanol-fixed preparation containing a portion of yeast or fungus culture isolate. Contains Candida albicans. | CBSL5010 |
| Mycology, MYC | This quality control slide provides a single air-dried and methanol-fixed preparation containing a clinical specimen of host tissue cells and yeast or fungal elements. Contains Candida albicans and host cells. | CBSL6010 |
