Gram staining is one way scientists can identify ... For example, penicillin is effective against Streptococcus infections, including strep throat and sinus infections. It can also be used for ...

Hans Christian Gram, the inventor of the Gram staining technique ... in the colouring of bacteria that is now known to be Streptococcus pneumoniae and Klebsiella pneumoniae.

Increasing our understanding of both the primary causative agent, Streptococcus ... Christian Gram used S. pneumonia to establish his cell wall staining technique, which is now known as Gram ...

Streptococcus gallolyticus (Sg) is a Gram-positive, opportunistic pathogen that can cause ... They cocultured Sg or the control bacterium Lactococcus lactis with various colon cell lines. After 24 or ...

Using topographic imaging, we found that Lactococcus lactis wild-type cells display ... the architecture and assembly of peptidoglycan in Gram-positive bacteria. Figure 1: AFM images of WT L.