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 ...

New research upends what scientists know about a classic lab technique, called gram staining, used for more than a century to characterized and classify bacteria.

Google is celebrating 166th birth anniversary of microbiologist Hans Christian Gram with a Doodle. The Scientist invented pioneering staining technique.

Compared with other methods, urine Gram stain moderately predicted gram-negative bacteria but added little value to UTI diagnosis in the ED, raising questions about its clinical utility.

Use of Gram stains to select antibiotics for ventilator-associated pneumonia offers similar clinical outcomes as guideline-based broad-spectrum treatment, study reports.

THE direct observation of the site of Gram stain in cells of micro-organisms could not be attempted before the ultra-thin section technique became available. However, to obtain a suitable section ...

Gram staining of tracheal aspirates is useful in predicting classes of causative microorganisms and for guiding appropriate initial antibiotic therapy for VAP in extremely preterm neonates.