LIVE BacLight™ Bacterial Gram Stain Kit, for microscopy & quantitative assays - FAQs

You can stain bacteria with a general stain such as BacLight Green Bacterial Stain (Cat. No. B35000) or BacLight Red Bacterial Stain (Cat. No. B35001). You can look at gram character (Cat. No. L7005), cell viability (Cat. Nos. L7007, L7012, and L13152), cell count (Cat. Nos. L34856 and B7277), and cell vitality. Cell vitality can be measured by membrane potential (Cat. No. B34950) or by metabolism (Cat. Nos. B34954 and B34956).

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The excitation/emission maxima for these dyes are 480/500 nm for SYTO 9 stain and 480/625 nm for hexidium iodide.

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