Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Acid Fast Stain

Acid-fast bacteria are gram positive and have large amounts of glycolipids, especially mycolic acids. This makes their membranes difficult to penetrate and also resistant to chemicals.
We found our Unknown E. bacteria was acid-fast positive because it turned red at the end of the staining procedure.


Acid-Fast Stain Results
 

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