How To Use Acid-fast In A Sentence

Acid-fast staining should be done if tuberculosis is clinically suspected.
All these 22 patients had chronic cough with haemoptysis but were not positive for acid-fast bacilli in three sputum examinations.
Acid-fast and parasite trichrome stains of lung biopsy specimens were negative, as were direct fluorescent antibody stains for legionella and pneumocystis carinii.
Special stains for fungus and acid-fast bacteria are negative, although culture is the more definitive diagnostic test.
No acid-fast staining was seen in cases of cryptococcosis or candidiasis.

Biopsy of the ulcers showed non-specific inflammatory cells with no evidence of malignancy or acid-fast bacilli.
Stains and cultures of bronchial washings were negative for Pneumocystis, acid-fast bacilli, fungi, bacteria, and viruses.
Special stains were negative for acid-fast bacilli, fungal forms, Pneumocystis, and other bacteria.
Cultures of right and left lung tissues were obtained for bacteria, acid-fast bacilli, and fungi.
All these 22 patients had chronic cough with haemoptysis but were not positive for acid-fast bacilli in three sputum examinations.
In all patients with suspected active disease, three sputum samples for mycobacterial acid-fast stain examination and Mycobacterium tuberculosis cultures should be collected on each of three consecutive days.
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Biopsy from a peritoneal granuloma showed caseation necrosis and acid-fast bacilli.