Safranin
The counter or secondary stain used in the acid-fast stain technique is methylene blue.
Bacillus subtilis is a Gram-positive bacterium and does not typically show acid-fast staining results. This means that it does not retain the stain when subjected to the acid-fast staining procedure commonly used to detect mycobacteria.
The heat is used to drive the primary stain, carbol fuchsin, into the waxy cell wall of acid-fast bacteria. This allows the stain to penetrate the mycolic acid in the cell wall, making the bacteria resistant to decolorization with acid-alcohol.
Yes, acid-fast stain is a type of differential stain.
Yes, Maneval's stain is an acid-fast stain used in microbiology to detect acid-fast bacteria such as Mycobacterium species. It involves using acid-alcohol to decolorize non-acid-fast bacteria while acid-fast bacteria retain the stain due to their waxy cell wall.
The counter or secondary stain used in the acid-fast stain technique is methylene blue.
Bacillus subtilis is a Gram-positive bacterium and does not typically show acid-fast staining results. This means that it does not retain the stain when subjected to the acid-fast staining procedure commonly used to detect mycobacteria.
The heat is used to drive the primary stain, carbol fuchsin, into the waxy cell wall of acid-fast bacteria. This allows the stain to penetrate the mycolic acid in the cell wall, making the bacteria resistant to decolorization with acid-alcohol.
Yes, acid-fast stain is a type of differential stain.
The decolorizing agent in the acid fast stain is acid alcohol. The decolorizing agent in the gram stain is ethanol.
Yes, Maneval's stain is an acid-fast stain used in microbiology to detect acid-fast bacteria such as Mycobacterium species. It involves using acid-alcohol to decolorize non-acid-fast bacteria while acid-fast bacteria retain the stain due to their waxy cell wall.
Acid alcohol destains non-acid fast bacteria but not Mycobacteria, which are resistant to the procedure due to the presence of mycolic acid. In the Ziehl Neelsen procedure, Mycobacteria remain red from the carbolfuchsin primary stain after destaining and non-acid fast bacteria (or tissue) which lose the primary stain during the destaining procedure are counterstained blue by methylene blue.
Assume that during the performance of this exercise you made several errors in your spore-staining procedure. In each of the following cases indicate how your microscopic observations would differ from those observed when the slides were prepared correctly . A. you used acid-alcohol as the decolorizing agent . B. you used safranin as the primary stain and malachite green as the counterstain C. you did not apply heat during the application of the primary stain · A. Normally tap water is used as the decolorizing agent to wash off excess stain. When you use acid-alcohol, it decolorizes the cells and the stain is removed. · B.When you use safranin as the primary stain and malachite green as the secondary stain, the cells will stain green and the spores will stain red. · C.When heat is not applied during the application of the primary stain, the spores are not stained and they appear colorless.
No, acid-fast bacteria do not stain gram-negative when subjected to the gram stain.
The acid-fast stain is positive in the sample.
The counter part of 'acid' is 'base'
One thing that endospore stains have in common with the acid fast stain is that heat primary stain penetration. Another thing that endospore stains have in common with acid fast stains are counterstain.