Stain used for staining fungal elements-: (A) Acid fast stain, (B) Mucicarmic, (C) Methenamine, (D) Gram stain
Answer is C. Stains used to demonstrate fungus Special stains periodic acid Schiff stain Fungal cell wall -red grocotts methanamine silver stain fungus wall - black Routine staining Hematoxylin and eosin stain Hyphae and ahrospores of dermatophytes seen as basophilic elements in stratum corneum Iadvl textbook and rook textbook of dermatology