Microbiology: A Systems Approach 4th Edition by Marjorie Kelly Cowan

Exercise 21

From chapter 3, figure 3.21. Without looking back to the figure in chapter 3, speculate on which meningitis-causing organism you are seeing here. How could your presumptive diagnosis be confirmed
Figure 3.21 Types of microbiological stains. (a) Simple stains. (b) Differential stains: Gram, acid-fast, and spore. (c) Special stains: capsule and flagellar.