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 ...
A female patient with cystic fibrosis in her mid-twenties has a positive AFB sputum culture. Below is a Kinyoun stain of positive MGIT tube fluid. The images show branching, beaded bacterial rods that ...