A team of researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has introduced a virtual Gram staining technique that could transform how microbiologists stain and classify bacteria. This ...

The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 43, No. 3 (Sep., 1928), pp. 228-231 (4 pages) A new method of staining flagella includes the treatment of young cultures with acetic acid (q. s. ad 5%); a drop ...

Some method embodiments further comprise steps for washing the sample with a washing solution prior to recording the first image of the sample so as to ensure that each sample is washed to establish a ...

Chemists have developed a fluorescent probe, BacGo that can detect Gram-positive bacteria precisely and promptly. The research team used bacterial sludge from wastewater for the demonstration ...

Gram staining is a type of differential staining used to distinguish between Gram positive and Gram negative bacterial groups, based on inherent differences in their cell wall constituents. Stains ...

Identification of microbes joins together the discipline of microbiology with the study of infectious diseases. Methods of reliable and accurate microbial identification are valuable to a wide range ...

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are making it increasingly difficult to combat many infections. And types of bacteria classified as “Gram-negative” — which refers to the Gram staining method used to ...