This Gram's stain description is indicative of Actinomyces species. These anaerobic filamentous bacteria are endogenous flora of the oropharynx, gastrointestinal tract, and female genital tract ...

Compared with other methods, urine Gram stain moderately predicted gram-negative bacteria but added little value to UTI diagnosis in the ED, raising questions about its clinical utility.

Gram positive bacteria are those that stain purple. They are usually non-pathogenic and their cell walls contain a thick layer of peptidoglycan.

Gram-positive bacteria are bacteria with thick cell walls. In a Gram stain test, these organisms yield a positive result. Here’s why knowing whether the result is positive or negative is important.

The Gram Staining kit is the newest addition to the Ventana product offerings on the highly successful, fully automated BenchMark Special Stains platform launched in mid-2012.

Gram staining is one way scientists can identify bacteria. Gram-positive bacteria, such as Staphylococcus, appear blue or purple under a microscope when scientists apply a stain. Conversely, Gram ...

Gram's stain experiment pointed toward some sort of difference in the structures of various bacterial cells. However, it was not until the early 1950s that scientists started to understand the ...

THE direct observation of the site of Gram stain in cells of micro-organisms could not be attempted before the ultra-thin section technique became available. However, to obtain a suitable section ...

The Gram stain is almost always the first step in the preliminary identification of a bacterial organism. Gram was then appointed a professor of medicine at the University of Copenhagen in 1900.

When the Gram-stain results indicated GPC, vancomycin was started because of the high incidence of methicillin-resistant S. aureus as a causative organism of GPC-related VAP at our NICU.

Hans Christian Gram, the inventor of the Gram staining technique, was a pioneering biologist who devised the system of classification which led to as many as 30,000 formally named species of ...