With delicate hues of purple and pink, a lab technique called gram staining has reliably characterized bacteria for more than a century. Yet many scientists are mistaken about why the vivid method ...

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 ...

Compared with other urine analysis methods, urine Gram stain has a moderate predictive value for detecting gram-negative bacteria in urine culture but does not significantly improve urinary tract ...

Being a cationic dye, crystal violet can be used to stain negatively charged polymers such as DNA 18 and cell walls of bacteria, the latter of which is partially the basis of Gram staining to ...

To determine the effectiveness of Gram staining of tracheal aspirates for predicting causative microorganisms and guiding appropriate initial antibiotic therapy to treat ventilator-associated ...

TODAY'S Google Doodle celebrates Danish microbiologist Hans Christian Gram. But who was he and what did he discover? Hans Christian Gram was a Danish microbiologist who Google is celebrating today on ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The number of polymorphonuclear leukocytes on gramstained urethral specimens was compared with the number in the sediment of the first-voided ...