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Abstract
Sputum from 105 cases of pulmonary tuberculosis were studied. Direct and post concentration smears were stained by Ziehl - Neelsen (ZN) and cold staining methods. The cold staining method is simple, because it eliminates heatingof stain. For direct smear, the correlations of cold staining procedure with conventional ZN method was 93% and for post concentration smear it was 100%.Entities:
Keywords: Acid fast bacilli; Mycobacterial cold staining
Year: 2017 PMID： 28769213 PMCID： PMC5529720 DOI： 10.1016/S0377-1237(17)31080-8
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Med J Armed Forces India ISSN： 0377-1237