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Principles of Staining Flashcards

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Colors and contrast of microorganisms in their natural state?

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Colorless and lacking of contrast

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An auxiliary technique used in microscopy to enhance contrast in the microscopic image.

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Staining

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Frequently used in biology and medicine to highlight structures in biological tissues for viewing, often with the aid of different microscopes.

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Stains and dyes

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The process of fixing the microorganism, or killing it, before attaching them to the slide

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Fixation

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Ways of fixation

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Heat-fixing, air-drying, and chemical fixation

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Procedure of Simple Staining

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Smear microbes to slide -> air-dry -> drip methanol onto specimen to fix -> flood slide with stain -> rinse with water before blotting dry -> examine with x100 objective (OIO)

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Type of staining that uses two or more dyes, as well as reacting differently with different microorganisms

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Differential staining

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Purpose of differential staining

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To contrast two or more organisms which maybe of the same or different species

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Who developed the Gram Stain

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Hans Christian Gram

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When was Gram Stain developed?

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1884

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(Gram Stain Reagent) Primary Stain

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Crystal Violet

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(Gram Stain Reagent) Mordant

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Gram’s Iodine

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(Gram Stain Reagent) Decolorizer

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Alcohol

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(Gram Stain Reagent) Counterstain

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Safranin

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Gram result that has a thick peptidoglycan

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Gram +

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Gram result wherein the outer membranes have lipids, polysaccharide

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Gram -

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Gram result that has 90% peptidoglycan

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Gram +

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Gram result that has no teichoic acids

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Gram -

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Gram result that has teichoic acids

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Gram +

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Gram result that has a thin peptidoglycan

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Gram -

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Gram result that does not have many polysaccharies

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Gram +

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Color of Gram + test?

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Purple/violet

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Color of Gram - test?

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Pink/red

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Age of the culture the gram stain should be performed on?

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18 to 24 hour culture

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Bacteria that cannot be seen in Gram staining

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thick lipid layer containing mycolic acid (mycobacterium) oand atypical cell wall (mycoplasma)

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Who developed the Acid Fast Stain?

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Franz Ziehl and Friedrich Neelsen

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To which does the acid fast stain binds strongly to?

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To bacteria that have a WAXY material in their cell walls

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(Acid Fast Reagents) Primary Stain

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Carbolfuchsin

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(Acid Fast Reagents) Mordant

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Heat

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(Acid Fast Reagents) Decolorizer

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Acid-alcohol

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(Acid Fast Reagents) Secondary Stain

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Methylene blue

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Color of Acid Fast?

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Pink/Red

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Color of Non Acid Fast

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Blue/Purple

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Preparing colorless bacteria against a colored background

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Negative staIning

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Another name for Negative staining

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Indirect Staining

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Negative staining reagent

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Nigrosine or India Pink

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Staining procedure used to color, isolate, identify, and study specific parts or structures of microorganisms

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Special staining

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Types of Special Staining

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Flagella Staining, Spore Staining, and Capsule Staining

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(Flagella Staining Results) Wet mount staining

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Purple MO against lighter purple stain

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(Flagella Staining Results) Leifson’s staining

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Blue MO against pink/red stain

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Flagellar arrangements with one flagella at one end

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Monotrichous

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Flagellar arrangements with multiple flagella at one end

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Lophotrichous

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Flagellar arrangements with one flagella at each end

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Amphitrichous

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Flagellar arrangements with multiple flagella at each end

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Petrichous

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Special resistant, dormant structure formed within a cell that protects a bacterium from adverse environmental conditions

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Endospore

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Another name for Endospore Staining?

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Schaeffer-Futon Endospore stain

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(Endospore Staining Reagents) Primary Stain

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Malachite green

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(Endospore Staining Reagents) Decolorizer

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Acid-alcohol

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(Endospore Staining Reagents) Secondary Stain

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Safranin

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What does Endospore Staining usually identify

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Bacillus and Clostridium

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Color of Endospore in Endospore Staining?

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Green

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Color of Vegetative cell in Endospore Staining?

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Pink/red

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Staining technique that stains the bacteria and the background, leaving the capsule unstained

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Capsule staining

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Another name for Capsule Staining

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Welch Method

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(Capsule Staining Reagents) Primary Stain

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Congo Red or Nigrosin

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(Capsule Staining Reagents) Mild decolorizer

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Copper sulfate

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Examples of Capsule Staining bacteria

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Streptococcus pneumoniae and Cryptococcus neoformans

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