Microbiology 9th Edition by Laura Black, Jacquelyn Black

Exercise 25

Jones comes into the hospital with symptoms that are indic ative of any one of three diseases. The treatments and progno ses for these three diseases are all verydifferent. It is important to correctly identify which disease Mr. Jones has, and quickly, because he is very ill. The technician up in the lab has bottles of antibodies labeled with fluorescent dye molecules. How can he determine whether the bacterium he cultured from the pa tient's specimen is one of the 3 suspected organisms? What kind of microscope should he use?