A method of staining bacteria comprises: working a polymethine dye on a sample in the presence of a substance capable of reducing nitrite ions to stain bacteria in the sample. A method of detecting bacteria comprises the following steps of: (1) working a polymethine dye on a sample by a method as described above to stain bacteria in the sample, (2) introducing the thus treated sample into a detecting part of a flow cytometer and irradiating cells of the stained bacteria one by one with light to measure scattered light and fluorescent light emitted from each of the cells; and (3) discriminating the bacteria from other components in accordance with an intensity of a scattered light signal and an intensity of a fluorescent light signal or a pulse width reflecting the length of particles to count the bacteria.
一种对细菌染色的方法包括:在有能还原
亚硝酸根离子的物质存在的情况下,将聚
甲基染料作用于样品,对样品中的细菌进行染色。一种检测细菌的方法包括以下步骤:(1)用上述方法在样品上加工聚
甲胺染料,使样品中的细菌染色;(2)将这样处理过的样品引入流式细胞仪的检测部分,用光逐个照射被染色细菌的细胞,测量每个细胞发出的散射光和荧光;(3)根据散射光信号的强度和荧光信号的强度或反映颗粒长度的脉冲宽度,将细菌与其他成分区分开来,对细菌进行计数。