A colleague asks you to interpret an acid fast stain on a

Last updated: 6/9/2023

A colleague asks you to interpret an acid fast stain on a patient s sputum sample What is your interpretation The patient does NOT have a mycobacterium infection There are acid fast cells but they don t look like mycobacteria The patient HAS a mycobacterium infection They must have messed up this can t be an acid fast stain