Which stain is used for:

1. Amoeba

2. BACTERIA

3. Yeast

4. Fungi

Basic stains are used to stain bacteria such as cystal violet, safranin etc.

Stains used for viruses are ammonium molybdate, uranyl formate etc.

Cresyl blue, methylene blue, thionin etc are used to stain amoeba.

Stains used for fungi are Grocott's metheneamine silver stain and Periodic-acid schiff stain.

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