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

Last updated: 8/7/2022

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