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.

Recently we have done two differential stains, the Gram stain and the Acid Fast stain. Both stains differentiate between bacteria chemically. The two staining techniques of Lab 4 differentiate by ...

Not all cases of non-HACEK Gram-negative bacterial endocarditis necessarily require surgical intervention. Indications for surgical intervention in patients with Gram-negative endocarditis are ...

The most important endospore-forming bacteria are members of the genera Bacillus and Clostridium, both of which are Gram-positive rods ... of endospores in a bacterial culture can be detected by ...

† VIMs are made up of 266 amino acid residues with the exception of VIM-7 (265 residues) and VIM-18 (262 residues). VIM-21, -22 and -27 have been assigned in the Lahey Clinic [201], but there ...