COMPARATIVE EVALUATION OF TWO COLD STAINING METHODS WITH THE ZIEHL-NEELSEN METHOD FOR THE DIAGNOSIS OF TUBERCULOSIS

In developing countries pulmonary tuberculosis is usually diagnosed by detecting acid-fast bacilli (AFB) in sputum using a Ziehl-Neelsen (Z-N) staining method. However, in the field the traditional method of staining is difficult to carry out. This study evaluates the efficiency of two cold staining...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Southeast Asian journal of tropical medicine and public health 2009-07, Vol.40 (4), p.765-769
Hauptverfasser:	GUPTA, Soham, PRASAD, Vishnu, BAIRY, Indira, MURALIDHARAN, S
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Bacterial diseases Biological and medical sciences General aspects Human bacterial diseases Human viral diseases Humans Infectious diseases Medical sciences Mycobacterium tuberculosis - isolation & purification Sputum - microbiology Staining and Labeling - methods Tuberculosis and atypical mycobacterial infections Tuberculosis, Pulmonary - diagnosis Viral diseases Viral diseases of the respiratory system and ent viral diseases
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