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Introduction to Staining

Lesson Code: PPM-712. How to prepare and heat fix a smear correctly. Introduction to three main categories of staining i.e. simple, differential and structural.

  • Category: Microbiology Laboratory - Practices

Description

After taking this e-Lesson, you will be able to:

- Explain the procedures for preparing smears from liquid and solid cultures

- List and describe examples of smearing errors

- Explain the procedure for heat fixing bacterial smears

- List the different categories of bacterial stains

- Describe the different bacterial stains: Simple, Differential and Structural