TY  - CHAP
M1  - Book, Section
TI  - Methods in Clinical Microbiology
A1  - Laposata, Michael
A1  - McCaffrey, Peter
PY  - 2022
T2  - Clinical Laboratory Methods: Atlas of Commonly Performed Tests
AB  - The  Gram  stain  is  used  to  rapidly  identify  organisms  in  a  patient  specimen  and  classify  them  as  either  gram-positive  or  gram-negative.  This  assay  can  identify  in  minutes  a  pathogenic  organism  if  it  is  present  in  sufficient  number  and  the  test  is  performed  correctly.  This  test  requires  microscopic  examination  of  a  stained  slide,  and  recognition  that  gram-positive  organisms  are  purple  and  gram-negative  organisms  are  red.  The  specimen  from  a  patient  which  may  contain  pathogenic  organisms  is  applied  to  a  glass  slide,  and  then  fixed  and  stained  in  a  series  of  steps  that  ultimately  leads  to  the  differential  staining  of  gram-positive  and  gram-negative  organisms.  
SN  - 
PB  - McGraw Hill, LLC
CY  - New York, NY
Y2  - 2024/04/18
UR  - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1187001166
ER  -