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28 June, 07:11

After staining your patient's specimen, an aspirate from the lungs, by the acid-fast stain method and focusing on the specimen, you find a large population of hot pink-red bacillus shaped bacteria in the smear Which statement is true? A) 1) Your patient has HIV B) In all likelihood, the patient has tuberculosis C) This result would be a normal outcome when looking at normal sputum of healthy people. D) The patient has pneumonia

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  1. 28 June, 07:59
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    its a tuberculosis because they are acid fast

    what it means is that high concentration of acid doesn't make them loose dye and they are still viable and able to retain dye that we added before acid so it appears to us as red or pink
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