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ZEISS Primostar 3 iLED Your Fluorescence Microscope for Sputum Examination

ZEISS Primostar 3 iLED is your microscope to visualize small structures down to 0.2 – 5 μm. So you can even observe objects such as the rod-shaped Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The gold standard for sputum smear microscopy is Ziehl-Neelsen staining and brightfield light microscopy. According to WHO1, LED fluorescence microscopy is even more sensitive and less time-consuming, making it a real alternative to the conventional standard.

With Primostar 3 iLED you:

  • Easily switch between fluorescence and brightfield illumination
  • Identify details up to four times faster than with brightfield microscopy1
  • Benefit from a special price as a customer from a country most heavily affected by TB
Primostar 3 iLED - image of a hand on the switch from fluorescence to bright field

Fluorescence or Brightfield

The Choice is Yours

Easily change between fluorescence and brightfield. Auramine-rhodamine fluorescently labeled mycobacteria light up greenish yellow in front of a dark background. Your images will show excellent contrast.

luorescence application image, Primo Star iLED, Auramine staining of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, counterstaining Methylene blue

With Fluorescence up to Four Times Faster

Using fluorescence and the 40× objective lens of your Primostar 3 iLED allows to visualize structures smaller than 0.5 μm such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis. With the large field of view you identify such details up to four times faster than with brightfield microscopy.2

Primostar 3 iLED - image of a hand on the switch from fluorescence to bright field

Stop TB Partnership

According to the WHO1, 10 million people fall ill with tuberculosis (TB) every year. 1.5 million even die. Those numbers make TB the world top infectious disease. It is caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which was detected by Robert Koch in 1882. As a member of the Stop TB Partnership ZEISS is following Koch's footsteps in the battle against TB.

How to Stain Auramine-Rhodamine

In this video tutorial Dr Harald Hoffmann, MD and head of the WHO-certified supranational reference laboratory IML in Gauting, Germany, demonstrates how to stain smear preparations for diagnosis of tuberculosis with fluorescence microscopy.

*The protocol and microscope recommendation shown in the video is based on the experience of the WHO reference laboratory in Gauting.

Application Examples

Representative example of plasmodium malariae in brightfield illumination

Representative example of plasmodium malariae in brightfield illumination

Representative example of plasmodium malariae in brightfield illumination

Representative example of plasmodium malariae in brightfield illumination

Representative example of tubercle bacilli in fluorescence illumination

Representative example of tubercle bacilli in fluorescence illumination

Representative example of tubercle bacilli in fluorescence illumination

Representative example of tubercle bacilli in fluorescence illumination

Downloads

    • ZEISS Primostar 3 iLED

      Your Fluorescence Microscope for Sputum Examination

      Pages: 12
      File size: 3 MB
    • ZEISS Primostar 3 iLED

      Your LED-Fluorescence Microscope for Sputum Examination

      Pages: 2
      File size: 961 KB
    • Your Microscopes for Laboratory and Teaching

      Your microscopes for increased efficiency in the lab and for more fun in teaching and working.

      Pages: 52
      File size: 10 MB
    • Clinical Laboratory Testing of Sputum

      ZEISS Primo Star iLED

      Pages: 4
      File size: 1 MB
    • ZEISS Primostar 3 iLED (Italian Version)

      Il microscopio a fluorescenza LED per l’esame dell’espettorato

      Pages: 12
      File size: 5 MB
    • ZEISS Primostar 3 iLED (Italian Version)

      Il microscopio a fluorescenza LED per l’esame dell’espettorato

      Pages: 2
      File size: 564 KB
    • ZEISS Primostar 3 iLED (Turkish Version)

      Balgam Muayenesi İçin LED Floresan Mikroskobunuz

      Pages: 2
      File size: 3 MB

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