Product code RXSOL-60-6604-981Category Lab Chemical

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Product description

Methylene Blue Loeffler reagent is used for staining acidoresistant bacteria according to Ziehl-Neelsen, utilizing the dye's property to stain almost all the bacterial cell's elements in a mildly alkaline medium (Methylene Blue Loeffler reagent has pH value of 8-8.5).

Applications

The Löffler's alkaline methylene blue staining method is a simple staining technique that can be used to differentiate bacterial, viral, and fungal infections. ... Specimens collected from patients by swabbing are smeared onto microscope slides and the methylene blue solution is dropped on the slide.

Dosage

It is a cationic dye that stains cells blue because the positively charged dye is attracted to negatively charged particles such as polyphosphates, DNAs, and RNAs. 

Also known as

METHYLENE BLUE ALKALINE LOFFLERS STAINING SOLUTION

Notes

METHYLENE BLUE is used to treat methemoglobinemia. This is a condition in which the blood loses its ability to carry oxygen through the body.

Where we supply

Oman. Stocked at our warehouse in Barka, South Al Batinah, and supplied to Muscat, Ruwi, Mutrah, Seeb, Rusayl, Barka, Sohar, Shinas, Saham, Buraimi, Nizwa, Ibri, Sur, Salalah, Duqm, Khasab and every other governorate.

Ports and free zones. Port Sultan Qaboos (Mutrah), Mina Al Fahal, Sohar Port and Freezone, Port of Salalah and Salalah Free Zone, Port of Duqm and the Duqm Special Economic Zone, Port of Sur, Khasab Port and Al Mazunah Free Zone.

Industrial areas. Rusayl, Sohar, Barka (Sanaya), Raysut (Salalah), Nizwa, Sur, Buraimi and Duqm industrial estates, Knowledge Oasis Muscat, and oil and gas sites across Oman.

Beyond Oman. We have branches in the UAE (including Fujairah) and in India (Kandla, Kolkata, Visakhapatnam, Chennai and Mumbai), and we also supply to South Africa.