Gram Staining without the Clock
- 25 April 1963
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 268 (17) , 941
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm196304252681709
Abstract
FOR many years an eye on the clock has been a stringent requirement for gram staining. Dr. Christian Gram1 himself no doubt would be surprised at the dedicated precision in carrying out each step of his procedure. He was more relaxed and applied the stain for one to three minutes and the iodine for a similar indefinite time. Later, other bacteriologists2 , 3 attempted to improve the gram stain by modifying each other's modifications until interest lagged in this area.Through the gradual acceptance of an exact method of gram staining two unfortunate by-products have arisen: the waste of countless hours of . . .Keywords
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