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stainColoured compound that will bind to other substances. Stains are used extensively in microbiology to colour micro-organisms, in histochemistry to detect the presence and whereabouts in plant and animal tissue of substances such as fats, cellulose, and proteins, and in biochemistry to reveal the location of biomolecules, as in gel electrophoresis. |
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Surgical tissue Gram's stain and culture were nonrevealing, but fungal culture grew P. When pus was found, all secretions were sent for Gram's stain, culture, and antibiogram. The aspirate was evaluated by Gram's stain, aerobic and anaerobic cultures, and Warthin-Starry silver staining (figure 3). |
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