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 ...

Both bacteria appeared acid-fast by Ziehl–Neelsen stain and Gram-positive by Gram stain. The identification was performed by MALDI-TOF MS and gene analysis. N. brasiliensis and nontuberculous ...

This useful study investigates two secreted Mycobacterium tuberculosis proteins ... were predicted using dimer models as templates via the M-Zdock server. The protonation status of amino acid residues ...

3) Imaging features of tuberculosis. The final clinical diagnostic criteria for tuberculosis include: 1) positive for pathogens (including acid-fast staining smears or specimen cultures). 2) Imaging ...

For all nine patients, intraoperative rapid frozen section examination, postoperative pathological examination of paraffin sections, acid-fast staining and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) detection of ...

ABSTRACT: Objective: In the acid-fast ... best staining method. Methods: Using sulfuric acid differentiation solution and hydrochloric acid differentiation solution, the paraffin blocks of ...

Tuberculosis is small rod-shaped in acid-fast staining, and it needs to be observed under 100× ... [8] Yu, G.Y., Chen, Y.L. and Liao, M.M. (2016) Exploration of the Role of Ethanol in Hydrochloric ...

In this study, we explored the clinical value of next-generation metagenome sequencing (mNGS) using bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) samples from patients with acid-fast staining (AFS) sputum smear ...