Offers guidelines for understanding Gram's stain, a staining procedure performed in the microbiology laboratory. Principle behind the procedure; Conventional method for performing Gram's stain; Modifications that have been made to improve Gram's stain results; Drawbacks to the procedure; Quality control...
Download PDFs Help Help This chapter focuses on the Gram staining method. This method of staining gained wide application because of its simplicity and quickness in the tentative classification of bacteria into two groups, gram-positive and gram-negative. The staining procedure is followed by ...
Gram Staining Procedure The gram staining procedure involves four major steps; staining with crystal violet, fixing the dye, applying a decolorizer, and counter-staining. Flood air-dried, heat-fixed smear of cells for 1 minute with crystal violet staining reagent.Please note that the quality of ...
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Staining procedure: · Place the slide on a staining rack and flood with crystal violet (primary stain) for about 60 seconds · Flood the slide with Iodine (Gram's iodine) for about 2 minutes · Using 95 percent ethanol, gently decolorize the smear - Stop once the thinnest part of the ...
The Neisser staining is based on the dye retention mechanism in the cell walls or granules of certain bacteria. Blue–violet cells (sometimes purple in appearance) are considered positive and yellow–brown cells negative. Commonly, this staining procedure is an indispensable aid to the identification...
Smears that are not properly fixed tend to be washed away during staining and washing resulting in the absence of stained bacteria.,Staining procedure,Primary stain: Smear flood with crystal violet 1 7、 min, gently wash with running tap water. Mordant: Flood with iodine solution 1 min, ...
Beforestaining,thespecimenmustbemountedandfixed ontheslides,aspreviouslydoneinthesimplestaining technique.Becauseofthe2dyesusedintheprocedure-- -crystalvioletandsafrinin---aswellasthedecolorizer acetone-alcohol,bacteriawillfallinto2groupsbasedon theirgramreactivity.Grampositivebacteriaretainthe crystalvioleteventhr...
However, the effect of Gram staining on restricting the initial antibiotic choice has not been investigated in intensive care units (ICUs). Objective To compare the clinical response to Gram stain–guided restrictive antibiotic therapy vs guideline-based broad-spectrum antibiotic treatment in patients ...
Methods:Manual and automatic stainings were carried outin parallel.Manual Gram stain was performed according to the conventional procedure.The Gram staining on PREVI Color Gram system was performed using the Decolorizer 2and 3programs.Slides were then mixed and read by a trained bacteriologist not ...