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  2. Acid-fastness - Wikipedia

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    Ziehl–Neelsen stain (classic and modified bleach types) [5]; Kinyoun stain; For color blind people (or in backgrounds where detecting red bacteria is difficult), Victoria blue can be substituted for carbol fuchsin and picric acid can be used as the counter stain instead of methylene blue, and the rest of the Kinyoun technique can be used.

  3. Category:Acid-fast bacilli - Wikipedia

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    This page contains acid-fast bacteria. Pages in category "Acid-fast bacilli" The following 127 pages are in this category, out of 127 total. ... This list may not ...

  4. Mycobacterium - Wikipedia

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    Since this genus has cell walls with a waxy lipid-rich outer layer containing high concentrations of mycolic acid, [4] acid-fast staining is used to emphasize their resistance to acids, compared to other cell types. [5] Mycobacterial species are generally aerobic, non-motile, and capable of growing with minimal nutrition.

  5. Acidophile - Wikipedia

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    Studies of proteins adapted to low pH have revealed a few general mechanisms by which proteins can achieve acid stability. In most acid stable proteins (such as pepsin and the soxF protein from Sulfolobus acidocaldarius), there is an overabundance of acidic residues which minimizes low pH destabilization induced by a buildup of positive charge ...

  6. Ziehl–Neelsen stain - Wikipedia

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    Mechanism of acid-fast staining in acid-fast cells and non-acid-fast cell [24] [25] [26] The mechanism of action of the Ziehl-Neelsen stain is not completely understood, but it is thought to involve a chemical reaction between the acidic dyes and the cell walls of the bacteria.

  7. Nocardia - Wikipedia

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    The genus is acid-fast to some degree, it stains only weakly Gram positive. The most common form of human nocardial disease is a slowly progressive pneumonia, the common symptoms of which include cough, dyspnea (shortness of breath), and fever. It is not uncommon for this infection to spread to the pleura or chest wall.

  8. 65 Unsettling Medical Facts That Are Not For The Faint Of Heart

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    The Nobel prize in 2006 was given to a research doctor theorized it was bacteria, not stomach acid & stress that caused ulcers. Unable to get funding for research, he drank an *H. Pilori* milk ...

  9. Mycobacterium avium complex - Wikipedia

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    In the Runyon classification, both bacteria are nonchromogens. They can be differentiated from M. tuberculosis and each other by commercially available DNA probes. [4]: 245 They are characterized as Gram-positive, nonmotile, acid-fast, short to long rods. [citation needed] Colony characteristics