[Histonet] Re: Help! In need of positive Gram Control (Jackie M O'Connor)

[Robert Richmond]

I agree - acute appendicitis with rupture and an abscess provides an
abundance of gram positive and gram negative bacteria, and such cases
are common.

I think that actual clinical tissue is better than controls faked with
reference organisms.

Tissue gram stains are greatly overrated. They don't work nearly as
well as smears do. If you want to see bacteria in tissue sections,
stain them with Giemsa or toluidine blue.

Bob Richmond
Samurai Pathologist
Knoxville TN