Original Article from The New England Journal of Medicine — A Case of Fatal Endocarditis, Due to a Capsulated Gram-Staining Diplococcus, Occurring in Chains ...

This patient, with gram-negative intracellular diplococci bilaterally on gram stain, subsequently had positive conjunctival cultures for N. gonorrhoeae . ...

This Gram's stain description is indicative of Actinomyces species. These anaerobic filamentous bacteria are endogenous flora of the oropharynx, gastrointestinal tract, and female genital tract ...

Hans Christian Gram, the inventor of the Gram staining technique, was a pioneering biologist who devised the system of classification which led to as many as 30,000 formally named species of ...

A lumbar puncture showed a cloudy cerebrospinal fluid with 4400 cells, 90% neutrophils, a protein level of 2.4 (normal 0.15–0.5) g/L and a glucose level of 0.33 (normal 2.22–3.9) mmol/L. Gram staining ...

• Gram-negative kidney-shaped diplococci can be seen clearly in urethral smears (sensitivity and specificity is 90% to 95% ). ... Gram stain, Neisseria gonorrhoeae culture. References : ...