Gram Stain of Bacterial Smear
Channel: Tami Guy, MS, CPPS
Date: 2012-09-22

Step-by-step video and audio instructions on how to Gram stain a slide that includes three bacterial smears; a Gram+ control (known Gram-positive bacteria), a Gram- control (known Gram-negative bacteria) and an unknown.

For a video on how to prepare slide of bacterial smears for Gram staining see: http://youtu.be/EdGnGKObzcI

For a more complete video on Gram staining, including examples of Gram stained slides as well as Gram+ and Gram- bacteria viewed under oil immersion, see:     http://youtu.be/EdGnGKObzcI

Video by Tami (Guy) Port, Chief Executive Nerd at ScienceProfOnline.com. For the lab materials that go with this movie, see the Virtual Microbiology Classroom Identification of Unknown Bacteria Laboratory Main Page at ScienceProfOnline.com.