Here is another substantial technology contribution from Carl Zeiss to the battle against infectious diseases: Primo Star iLED, the new fluorescence microscope.
The Primo Star microscope from Carl Zeiss in combination with new iLED fluorescence attachments: even greater versatility can now be achieved with Primo Star iLED for many fluorescent labels.
Primo Star iLED – a further development of Primo Star – is impressive with its versatile performance features:
In addition, Primo Star iLED offers all the advantages of Primo Star:
Primo Star iLED is the flexible solution for tuberculosis analysis with LED fluorescence excitation and transmitted-light brightfield illumination.
Primo Star iLED enables you to analyze microscopic tubercle bacilli with transmitted-light brightfield illumination. Due to the small size of the pathogen stained according to Ziehl-Neelsen, you usually work with a 100 x objective. At this magnification rate the visible object field is very small. The scanning of the specimen therefore is relatively time-consuming. The tubercle bacilli stained in violet are hardly visible.
In the LED-based fluorescence microscope Primo Star iLED, tubercle bacilli stained with, e.g., Auramine O, conspicuously glow in yellow to greenish hues against a dark background. Due to this fact and the use of a 40 x objective with larger object field the detection of the pathogens is about 4 times faster and about 10% more sensitive than Ziehl-Neelsen method.
Primo Star iLED gives you the opportunity: simply switch between the two modes. Due to simple switching between fluorescence and brightfield, Primo Star iLED is flexibly applicable.
