Comparative evaluation of two cold staining methods with the ziehl-neelsen method for the diagnosis of tuberculosis

Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 765-769

  Gupta, Soham ^a   Prasad, Vishnu ^b   Bairy, Indira ^b   Muralidharan, S ^a  

^a ST JOHN'S NATIONAL ACADEMY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (India)

^b KASTURBA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; SPUTUM; STAINING;

HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; SPUTUM; STAINING AND LABELING; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 68649098112     PISSN: 01251562     EISSN: 26975718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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