Inclusion bodies of trachoma are stained with?: (A) Wright’s stain, (B) Iodine, (C) Saffranin, (D) Alcian blue
Answer is B. Stained with dilute Lugol’s iodine solution, some of the inclusions of C trachomatis appear brown because of the glycogen matrix that surrounds the particles. Inclusions of C psittaci are diffuse intracytoplasmic aggregates.