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What color is Brilliant green K in Acid fast cell?
Acid-fast bacteria stain pink. Non acid-fast bacteria stain green.
What are results for a acid-fast test for enterobacter aerogenes?
Enterobacter aerogenes is a non-acid fast bacteria. Bacteria only in the Mycobacteria and Nocardia genus are acid fast.
Two diseases caused by acid fast bacteria?
Tuberculosis and leprosy are two diseases caused by acid fast bacteria.
What type of food properties do not allow harmful bacteria to multiply?
Foods that are high in acid do not allow harmful bacteria to multiply rapidly.
What is an acid-fast pathogen?
An acid-fast pathogen is a bacteria that is harmful to humans. They have cell walls that contain mycolic acid which is a lipid. Common Gram type staining techniques wont work with these cells. A special stain carbolfuchsin is used to penetrate the wall.After staining you wash with acid alcohol if the stain remains it is acid fast if it washes out it is non-acid fast.Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a well known acid-fast pathogen
What type of food properties do not allow harmful bacteria to multiply rapidly?
Foods that are high in acid do not allow harmful bacteria to multiply rapidly.
What is the practical importance in a medical lab of the acid-fast stain?
By this technique, we can diffentiate the acid fast and non acid- fast bacteria. The non acid-fast bacteria are M.tuberculosis and N.asteriodes. They are the causative agents for tuberculosis and nocardiosis respectively. The acid fast staining or the Ziel- Nielsen's staining is the only procedure to find out the above mentioned pathogens.
What the meaning no acid fast bacilli seen?
no bacteria seen
Do acid fast bacteria have peptidoglycan cell walls?
yes
Are acid fast bacteria gram positive or negative?
it is positive
What would be an acid-fast bacteria?
Mycobacterium is am example for acid fast bacteria. These bacterias have large amounts of mycolic acids in their cell wall which are impermeable to any other staining technique.
What are the consequences of Ziehl-Neelsen staining?
The Ziehl-Neelsen stain is also known as the acid-fast stain. It contains sulfuric acid, and is used to identify acid-fast bacteria, or bacteria resistant to decolorization by acids from staining.
