A team of researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has introduced a virtual Gram staining technique that could transform how microbiologists stain and classify bacteria. This ...

Your doctor may use an acid-fast bacteria (AFB) stain test to see if you have a lung disease like tuberculosis (TB). In addition to showing tuberculosis, an AFB stain can also show if you have another ...

Indications : The test is ordered to detect infections caused by acid fast bacteria in a person. Several species of the mycobacterium family cause TB in humans and animals. An early morning, deep ...

Indications : N. gonorrhoeae is usually detected by growing them in cultures. In some instances, a smear is ordered to detect the presence of the causative bacteria. A sample is collected from the ...

Bacterial species, and even specific strains can be differentiated using a number of molecular techniques such as PCR, quantitative PCR, genome sequencing and mass spectrometry. But even without ...

Fine-needle aspiration biopsies of soft tissue tumors are often not fully diagnostic on conventional Papanicolaou or Giemsa stains. Often, more useful information can be gleaned from preparing cell ...

Bavesh Kana receives/received funding from the South African National Research Foundation, South African Medical Research Council, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, The Howard Hughes Medical ...