EFFICACY OF THE RYU NONSTAINING KOH TECHNIQUE FOR RAPIDLY DETERMININGGRAM REACTIONS OF FOOD-BORNE AND WATERBORNE BACTERIA AND YEASTS

Authors
POWERS EM
Citation
Em. Powers, EFFICACY OF THE RYU NONSTAINING KOH TECHNIQUE FOR RAPIDLY DETERMININGGRAM REACTIONS OF FOOD-BORNE AND WATERBORNE BACTERIA AND YEASTS, Applied and environmental microbiology, 61(10), 1995, pp. 3756-3758
Citations number
19
Categorie Soggetti
Microbiology,"Biothechnology & Applied Migrobiology
Journal title
Applied and environmental microbiology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00992240
Volume
61
Issue
10
Year of publication
1995
Pages
3756 - 3758
Database
ISI
SICI code
0099-2240(1995)61:10<3756:EOTRNK>2.0.ZU;2-Q
Abstract
A simple and rapid (< 60 s) nonstaining technique with 3% potassium hy droxide to determine Gram reactions was tested with 495 food-borne and waterborne bacteria and yeasts. In KOH, suspensions of gram-negative bacteria become viscous and string out. Gram-positive bacteria are not affected. There was 100% correlation between the KOH string test resu lts and gram-positive and gram-negative strains.