acid fast bacilli latin , ABF (Abkürzung)

All cultures grew either acid fast bacilli or uncharacterised spheroplasts.

The positive non-inflammatory bowel disease culture also grew acid fast bacilli which were not M paratuberculosis.

Both ulcerative colitis cultures were of biopsy material and also grew acid fast bacilli.

Of the four infected tissues containing acid fast bacilli, two were positive for IS 6110 and 65 kilodalton sequences.

Recognisable acid fast bacilli were identified microscopically in 10 of the 31 long term cultures, originating from 29 patients' tissues.

In these sixteen cases, fifteen (94%) were positive by culture, and one patient was detected only by acid fast bacilli staining (6%).

The two non-inflammatory bowel disease cultures were from mucosal biopsies, one grew spheroplasts and the other acid fast bacilli.

One patient was positive only for acid fast bacilli staining in two stool samples but no growth was observed in culture tubes after 16 weeks of incubation.

Throughout the study the results of IS900 and IS902 polymerase chain reaction bore no relation to spheroplasts or bacillary form acid fast bacilli visible in the cultures.

The most common staining technique used to identify acid-fast bacteria is the Ziehl-Neelsen stain, in which the acid fast bacilli are stained bright red and stand out clearly against a blue background.

M. lepromatosis is an Acid Fast Bacilli (AFB) which causes diffuse Lepromatous leprosy (DLL).

Even with normal chest radiographs, patients with HIV infection and pulmonary TB might have acid fast bacilli (AFB)-positive sputum smear and culture results.

In addition, four patients' lymph nodes seen to contain acid fast bacilli on Ziehl-Neelsen staining were included as a positive control of DNA extraction and sample inhibition in our study samples.

This patient has radiographic evidence of pulmonary TB, is culture-positive for XDR TB, but is sputum smear negative for acid fast bacilli and is relatively asymptomatic.

Tissue from biopsy of lymph nodes is subjected to both flow cytometry to rule out cancer and special stains (acid fast bacilli stain and Gömöri methenamine silver stain) to rule out microorganisms and fungi.

Tissue samples from 18 patients with Crohn's disease, five with ulcerative colitis, and six non-inflammatory bowel disease controls were cultured at 37 C for between two and six years and yielded acid fast bacilli or spheroplasts (Table).

But they are necessary and warranted because, for the most part, hospitals are notoriously inadequate in their ventilation and usually do not have a sufficient number of acid fast bacilli isolation rooms with negative air pressure for treatment and rehabilitation of TB patients.