title: Clinical utility of an automated instrument for gram staining single slides.
abstract: Gram stains of 87 different clinical samples were prepared by the laboratory's conventional methods (automated or manual) and by a new single-slide-type automated staining instrument, GG&B AGS-1000. Gram stains from either heat- or methanol-fixed slides stained with the new instrument were easy to interpret, and results were essentially the same as those from the methanol-fixed slides prepared as a part of the routine workflow. This instrument is well suited to a rapid-response laboratory where Gram stain requests are commonly received on a stat basis.
authors.affiliation: Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, California 94304, USA. ejbaron@stanford.edu
authors.forename: Ellen Jo
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Baron
authors.forename: Samantha
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mix
authors.forename: Wais
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Moradi
mesh_terms: D001331:Automation / Q000379:methods*; D001431:Bacteriological Techniques / Q000379:methods*; D005840:Gentian Violet; D006801:Humans; D010619:Phenazines; D013194:Staining and Labeling / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: C035863:Gram's stain; D010619:Phenazines; D005840:Gentian Violet
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