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Acid Fast Stain

Acid Fast Stain
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Description: This is an acid fast stain. Notice the reddish-pink, filamentous cells. These are the acid fast cells, Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

They have a waxy lipid in their cell walls called mycolic acid that makes difficult to stain. The small circular blue cells are non-acid fast and have been stained with the
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