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 another ...
A sputum stain for Mycobacteria is a laboratory test performed on a sample of your sputum, or phlegm. It’s also known as an acid-fast bacillus (AFB) stain or a tuberculosis (TB) smear. A doctor ...
The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 43, No. 3 (Sep., 1928), pp. 228-231 (4 pages) A new method of staining flagella includes the treatment of young cultures with acetic acid (q. s. ad 5%); a drop ...