Kennedy and Barbaro (1953) presented data suggesting that crystal violet adsorption values correlated directly with the gram staining character of bacterial cells, and implied that such quantitative dye uptake studies might prove a basis for a much needed quantitative index of gram positivity. Their results are consistent with a popular theory of the mechanism of gram differentiation presented by Steam and Steam (1926).
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