We determined that Pap smear has a sensitivity of 43.1%, and a specificity of 93.6% for the diagnosis of bacterial vaginosis when compared to Gram stain. We compared the cervical smear with Gram ...

Gram stain procedure - Gram staining a sample. Gently flood the smear with crystal violet and leave for 1 minute. Tilt the slide slightly and gently rinse with tap water or distilled water. Crystal ...

Gram staining of tracheal aspirates is useful in predicting classes ... of 47 episodes of VAP. CRP was not tested in three episodes of VAP. Intracellular bacteria on Gram-stained smears were ...

Gram staining begins by adding a crystal violet stain to a bacterial smear and then applying iodine to form a complex that fixes the crystal violet stain within the cell.

Gram staining is a type of differential staining used to distinguish between Gram positive and Gram negative bacterial groups, based on inherent differences in their cell wall constituents. Stains ...

Initial diagnosis is based on the Gram stain smear, but human interpretation of Gram-stained slide images is “labor and time intensive, and highly operator-dependent,” the authors explain. “ ...

Pierce Gardner, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, wrote about the Gram stain and its interpretation in 1974: “It is our feeling that the Gram-stained smear should be ...

The Gram stain method – named after its inventor – consists in treating a smear of bacteria with a violet dye, then rinsing it with iodine solution and an organic solvent.

In 1900, Gram resigned his pharmacology chair to take up a role as professor of medicine, which he held before retiring in 1923. He died in Copenhagen in 1938 aged 85. What did Dr Gram discover?