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Why is the acid-fast stain only partially accurate?
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Acid fast staining is ziehl neelsen stain.

It is used to differentiate the acid fast bacteria and non acid fast bacteria.

It is used to find out micobacterium tuberculosis organisms.

It is having mycolic acid in their outer membrane, and it will act like waxy and attach to the stain.

If some water based stains like gram stain some times not well work on acid fast staining.

Which may leads to misinterpretation of results.

So it is partially accurate.

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Acid fast staining is actually ziehl neelsen stain which is used to differentiate the acid fast bacteria and non acid fast bacteria particularly for mycobacterium tuberculosis and it is partially correct because some cells are only partially acid-fast and others may contain acid-fast structures
source: Microbiology book
answered by: Muazzam Ali
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