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 Gram stain is part of a family of histochemical special stains that many laboratories around the world still run manually today. In automating the stain, Ventana gives its customers an efficient ...

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

Similar outcomes in patients with ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) suggest that antibiotics selected by Gram staining were noninferior to those based on guidelines and also significantly ...

Through the gradual acceptance of an exact method of gram staining two unfortunate by-products have arisen: the waste of countless hours of . . . Select the format you want to export the citation of ...

Ventana Medical Systems, Inc. (Ventana) has announced the global launch of the VENTANA Gram Staining Kit. Automated for use on the VENTANA BenchMark Special Stains instrument, the Gram Staining Kit ...

The aim of the present prospective study was to assess the validity of the Gram stain–AOLC test for the diagnosis of CRBI in HSCT recipients with nontunnelled CVCs, using the DTP/clinical criteria as ...

Here’s the second installment of our series that profiles, in images and words, each and every resident of Bates’ newest academic building, Bonney Science Center, as they begin to engage with their ...

Chemists have developed a fluorescent probe, BacGo that can detect Gram-positive bacteria precisely and promptly. The research team used bacterial sludge from wastewater for the demonstration ...