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 ...
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 ...
Bacterial species, and even specific strains can be differentiated using a number of molecular techniques such as PCR, quantitative PCR, genome sequencing and mass spectrometry. But even without ...