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Bacteria stain either gram-positive or gram-negative based on the presence or absence of a cell wall. Viruses do not pick up a gram stain.
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What is the gram stain of the polio virus?
neither it is not stain-able because it is a virus
What happens if you use gram stain on a virus?
Most likely nothing. The gram stain will only stain the peptidoglycan cell wall of bacteria. Most viruses have a protein coat called a capsid. The capsid will not take up either the crystal violet or the safranin of a Gram stain.
Are Measles caused by a virus or bacterium?
Measles is caused by virus.
Is varicella zoster virus gram negative of gram positive?
Gram-positive and gram-negative refer to the Gram stain used to prepare slides of bacteria for viewing under a light microscope. Viruses are too small to see under a light microscope and have to be prepared differently for viewing under an electron microscope. So the answer to your question is neither
Is measles a virus fungi bacteria or protozoa?
Measles is caused by a virus.
What is the Gram stain for measles?
Bacteria stain either gram-positive or gram-negative based on the presence or absence of a cell wall. Viruses do not pick up a gram stain.
What is the gram stain of the polio virus?
neither it is not stain-able because it is a virus
What gram stain is lassa fever?
Lassa fever is a virus. It does not have a gram stain characteristic.
What is a gram stain for hpv?
HPV is a virus. Viruses aren't gram stained.
What happens if you use gram stain on a virus?
Most likely nothing. The gram stain will only stain the peptidoglycan cell wall of bacteria. Most viruses have a protein coat called a capsid. The capsid will not take up either the crystal violet or the safranin of a Gram stain.
Is HIV gram stain positive or negative?
The answer to whether HIV gram-stain positive or negative is that HIV gram-stain is negative. They retain the light red or pink color after the stain.
What is the gram stain for the west nile virus?
There is no Gram stain for the rabies virus - it does not pick up either the stain or the counter-stain and has no official Gram stain status like bacteria do. When scientists are looking at slides of brains to see if an animal was infected with rabies, they use a special immunofluorescent stain made of antibodies against the rabies virus linked to either a vividly colored pigment or a fluorescent pigment. If the rabies virus is present, the antibodies in the stain adhere to the viral particles and then the pigment becomes fixed to the tissue as well, allowing the pathologist to "see" the virus (actually just that the virus is present and approximately where it is at - the virus is too small to see with a standard light microscope).
What is the gram stain for rubella virus?
Viruses cannot pick up gram staining because it does not have the cell wall of a bacteria.
Are Measles caused by a virus or bacterium?
Measles is caused by virus.
Is varicella zoster virus gram negative of gram positive?
Gram-positive and gram-negative refer to the Gram stain used to prepare slides of bacteria for viewing under a light microscope. Viruses are too small to see under a light microscope and have to be prepared differently for viewing under an electron microscope. So the answer to your question is neither
Is measles a virus fungi bacteria or protozoa?
Measles is caused by a virus.
What micro organism causes measles?
Paramyxovirus IT IS A VIRUS WHICH CONTAIN DNA....AND CAUSES MEASLES.........
