Please wear gloves and work with the stain in the hood. Place a piece of paper towel on top of the dye. Be sure the paper towel is saturated with the dye. Counterstain with Methylene Blue for 30 ...

Your doctor may use an acid-fast bacteria (AFB) stain test to see if you have a lung ... where it is smeared onto a glass slide. Using a process known as the Ziehl Neelsen method, a fuchsia ...

It’s also known as an acid-fast bacillus (AFB ... Your sputum specimen will be spread on a microscope slide. A staining dye is added to the cells of the specimen and then washed in an acid ...