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Inefficiency of 0.3% Carbol Fuchsin in Ziehl-Neelsen Staining for Detecting Acid-Fast Bacilli

We compared the sensitivity and specificity of a modified Ziehl-Neelsen (modified-ZN) staining method for acid-fast bacilli (AFB) with that of the standard Ziehl-Neelsen (standard-ZN) staining method, using culture results with Mycobacterium tuberculosis as the “gold standard.” The sensitivity (72%;...

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Autors principals: Selvakumar, N., Rahman, Fathima, Rajasekaran, S., Narayanan, P. R., Frieden, Thomas R.
Format: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicat: American Society for Microbiology 2002
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Accés en línia:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC120628/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12149374
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JCM.40.8.3041-3043.2002
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