A Comparative Study on the Different Staining Methods and Number of Specimens for the Detection of Acid Fast Bacilli

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Volumn 95, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 855-858

  Ulukanligil, Mustafa ^a   Aslan, Gonul ^a   Tasçi, Sami ^a  

^a HARRAN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Fluorescence microscopy; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Sensitivity; Ziehl Neelsen

Indexed keywords

BACILLI; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAINING; TUBERCULOSIS;

HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAINING AND LABELING; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0034323815     PISSN: 00740276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762000000600019     Document Type: Article

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