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3 days ago · E. coli stains gram-negative because its cell wall is composed of a thin peptidoglycan layer and an outer membrane. During the staining process, E. coli picks up the color of the counterstain safranin and stains pink.
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Apr 21, 2024 · The gram staining procedure involves four major steps; staining with crystal violet, fixing the dye, applying a decolorizer, and counter-staining. Flood air-dried, heat-fixed smear of cells for 1 minute with crystal violet staining reagent.
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May 2, 2024 · A colony of Escherichia coli [111] Unlike in multicellular organisms, increases in cell size ( cell growth) and reproduction by cell division are tightly linked in unicellular organisms. Bacteria grow to a fixed size and then reproduce through binary fission, a form of asexual reproduction. [112]
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Apr 20, 2024 · Gram-negative bacteria characteristically stain pink or red following the Gram reaction, owing to their thin cell walls; this is in contrast to Gram-positive bacteria, which stain purple, owing to their thick cell walls. In the process of Gram staining, a slide containing a heat-fixed smear of bacterial cells is treated with crystal-violet stain.
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May 6, 2024 · The Enterobacteriaceae are a large and diverse family of gram-negative rods, members of which are both free-living and part of the indigenous flora of humans and animals; a few are adapted strictly to humans.
Apr 20, 2024 · Gram staining helps to identify bacterial pathogens in specimens and cultures by their Gram reaction (Gram-positive and Gram-negative) and morphology (cocci/rod). Acid-fast stain (Ziehl-Neelsen technique)
3 days ago · Gram staining is a differential staining technique that differentiates bacteria into two groups: gram-positives and gram-negatives. The procedure is based on the ability of microorganisms to retain color of the stains used during the gram stain reaction.