Why is it necessary to use a 24-hrold culture in gram staining?

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Chapter7: Basic Clinical Microbiology
Section7.7: Bacterial Identification And Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing
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  1. Why is it necessary to use a 24-hrold culture in gram staining?
  2. What does Gram staining reveal owing to its use in clinical diagnosis?
  3. Indicate color staining results of gram positive and negative bacteria for every hypothetical scenario.

 

Modification in Procedure

Staining results

1.   Crystal violet was replaced with methylene blue.

G+

G-

2.   Mordant was skipped

G+

G-

3.   Decolorizing step was omitted

G+

G-

4.   counterstain was not used?

G+

G-

5.   Crystal violet and safranin was swapped in position.

G+

G-

 

  1. What bacterial specimen represent the following: (a) positive simple staining; and (b) negative simple staining viewed under OIO. Provide details such as specimen and bacterial stain used and reference.

Positive Staining                         

1000 X      

 

Negative Staining

1000 X

 

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