{"id":11328,"date":"2021-03-08T03:44:11","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T03:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lavascular.com\/?p=11328"},"modified":"2021-03-12T23:24:08","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T23:24:08","slug":"medically-important-bacteria-that-cannot-be-seen-in-the-gram-stain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lavascular.com\/medically-important-bacteria-that-cannot-be-seen-in-the-gram-stain\/","title":{"rendered":"Medically important bacteria that cannot be seen in the Gram stain"},"content":{"rendered":"
Name<\/strong><\/td>\nReason<\/strong><\/td>\n | Alternative Microscopic Approach<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Mycobacteria<\/em><\/p>\n | (Ex. M. tuberculosis<\/em>)<\/td>\n <\/p>\n B. Cell shape:\u00a0 cocci (round), bacilli (rods), spiral-shaped (spirochetes), pleomorphic<\/p>\n C. Cell arrangement:\u00a0 clusters, chains, pairs<\/p>\n cell division.<\/p>\n D. Biotyping<\/p>\n 1. Based on the presence or absence of specific biochemical markers, like:<\/p>\n a) ability to ferment specific sugars.<\/p>\n b) production of specific end products.<\/p>\n c) relationship to oxygen<\/p>\n E. Serotyping<\/p>\n F. Antibiograms<\/p>\n G. Phage typing<\/p>\n Analytic Classification<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Genotypic Classification<\/strong><\/p>\n The development of molecular techniques based on analysis of nucleic acids is changing the way bacterial classification and identification are done.\u00a0 The advantages of these techniques include their specificity and the ability to detect organisms that cannot be cultured.\u00a0 These can also be considered as disadvantages.\u00a0 Techniques include:<\/p>\n Photo by Pulmonary Pathology<\/a> <\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Name Reason Alternative Microscopic Approach Mycobacteria (Ex. M. tuberculosis) Too much lipid in cell wall so dye cannot penetrate Acid-fast stain Treponema pallidum Too thin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_ti_tpc_template_sync":false,"_ti_tpc_template_id":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n |