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.

Although simple stains are useful, they do not reveal details about the bacteria other than morphology and arrangement. The Gram stain is a differential stain commonly used in the microbiology ...

Bacterial vaginosis is confined to an asymptomatic ... solution (positive whiff or sniff test). As an alternative, Gram-stain-based microbiological diagnosis of BV has been proposed.

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. An endospore is a dense ... The presence of endospores in a ...