Urine testing with auramine staining, showed acid-fast bacilli, and urinary polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and culture were positive for Mycobacterium tuberculosis. We treated the patient with ...

A sputum stain for Mycobacteria is a laboratory test performed on a sample of your sputum, or phlegm. It’s also known as an acid-fast bacillus (AFB) stain or a tuberculosis (TB) smear. A doctor ...

Diagnostic value of GeneXpert MTB/RIF in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid for pulmonary non-tuberculosis mycobacterial in acid-fast stain smear-positive and GeneXpert MTB/RIF-negative cases ...

Here we utilized the cell-to-cell variation in morphological features of Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacilli to develop a rapid profiling platform called Morphological Evaluation and Understanding ...

Among the 308 participants who were culture-positive for M. tuberculosis, when phenotypic drug-susceptibility testing was used as the reference standard, the sensitivities of the investigational ...

Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis) — the bacteria that cause TB — has the potential to invade the blood and lymphatic system, causing disseminated disease.