Your doctor may use an acid-fast bacteria (AFB) stain test to see if you have a lung disease like tuberculosis (TB).In addition to showing tuberculosis, an AFB stain can also show if you have ...

Among patients with a positive culture, staining of paraffin-embedded tissue for acid-fast bacilli is reported to be positive in 18 to 85% of cases. 10 Furthermore, extrapulmonary tuberculosis is ...

The samples are then heat-fixed and treated with an acid-fast stain for TB mycobacteria. Access to reproducible and high-throughput staining with these methods is limited by a lack of trained staff to ...

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