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Bacterial Staining Flashcards

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1
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What is the product of magnification of the ocular lens of the magnification of an objective lens?

A

Magnification of a light microscope

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When can oil immersion be using a light microscope?

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Only use for samples that are fixed ordead

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How do you calculate the resolution of a light microscope?

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Resolution = 0.5 (wavelength) / numerical aperture

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Which type of staining is the most used for staining procedure in microbiology?

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Gram stain

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What is the advantage of differential stain?

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Does not stay in all kinds of cells the same colour

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What colour does a Gram-positive bacteria show on the Gram stain?

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Purple colour

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What colour does a Gram-negative bacteria show on the Gram stain?

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Pink colour

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How do you prepare cells for Gram staining?

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  • thin-film of cells from culture applied to slide
  • Air dried
  • flame fixes cells glass
  • first dye with crystal violet for one minute
  • rinse with water
  • flood with iodine for three minutes
  • rinse with water
  • flood with ethanol for 20 seconds
  • Purple colour will show if Gram-positive
  • For Gram-negative need to add safranin for 1-2 minutes
  • Rinse with water before viewing
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Why do we use crystal violet?

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Positively charged and binds with high affinity to negatively charged molecules

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What does crystal violet an iodine form?

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Complex

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Why is it important to use crystal violet and iodine in a Gram stain?

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Difficult to remove dye from the cells if complex formed

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What does ethanol extract from the Gram-negative bacteria?

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Crystal violet

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Why does ethanol not extract the crystal violet from a Gram-positive bacteria?

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Gram-positive have a thick peptidoglycan cell wall

Ethanal causes dehydration causing pores to close and prevent crystal violet from leaving

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What solutions can be used for simple staying?

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Crystal violet/safranin/methylene blue

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How do use a simple stain?

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  • Use stain

- Rinse of with water

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Why do we use simple stain?

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Size, shape and arrangement of cells

17
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How does crystal violet stain?

A

Stains most bacteria uniformly

18
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How does safranin stain?

A

Stains most bacteria pink or red

19
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How does methylene blue stain?

A

Stains bacteria light blue

20
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What are the different types of differential stains?

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  • Gram stain
  • Acid-fast stain
  • Endspore stain
21
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What is the most used staining technique?

A

Differential stains

22
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What makes a differential stain different to simple staining?

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Uses more than one type of dye

23
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Why do you use differential staining?

A

To distinguish between different structures

24
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What is the most frequently used differential stain?

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Gram stain

25
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What is the procedure of an acid-fast stain?

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  • Stain with carbol fuchsin with heat
  • Cooled and decolourised with hydrochloric acid
  • counterstain with methylene blue
  • Rinse with water
26
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Why do we use acid-fast stain?

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Identify a subset of bacterium genes - Mycobacterium has a waxy material in cell wall

27
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Why do we use endospore stains?

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To identify endospores inside of plasmids of bacteria

28
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Why do we have to use endospores staining techniques to identify endospores?

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-Highly resistant to dissection, heat and radiation

29
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What is the procedure of an endospore stain?

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  • Malachite green stain
  • Heat
  • Rinse with water
  • Counterstain with safranin
  • Rinse with water
  • Appears green if endospores present
30
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What are the different types of special stains?

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  • Negative stains

- Flagellar stains

31
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Why do we use special staining procedures?

A

Interact with special features such as the capsules or flagellum

32
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What do negative stains do?

A

Negative stains stain the background leaving cells colourless as acid dye are repelled by negative charges on the surfaces of the cell

33
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What is the negative stain procedure?

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  • Basic counterstain
  • Rinse with water
  • Eosin stain
  • Rinse with water

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