An evaluation of the theory and use of the acridine orange stain in enumerating bacterial populations

• Main Author: Tomimatsu, Gail Susan
• Other Authors: Microbiology
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 1976
• Subjects: LD5655.V855 1976.T645; Bonney; Lake Bonney; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/65062

Live and killed pure cultures of a Gram positive rod and a Gram negative rod isolated from Lake Bonney in Southern Victorialand, Antarctica, as well as water samples from an oligotrophic lake, were stained with varying concentrations and pHs of aqueous solutions of the fluorochrome, acridine orange...