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Staining is a technique where specimens are stained with specific dyes to create contrast between the specimen and its background. Several different types of staining procedure are known today which are used to study morphological features of microorganism and their parts (Table 1).
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Jain, A., Jain, R., Jain, S. (2020). Staining Methods – Simple Staining, Negative Staining, Gram’s Staining and Acid-Fast Staining. In: Basic Techniques in Biochemistry, Microbiology and Molecular Biology. Springer Protocols Handbooks. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-9861-6_31
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