Your doctor can order this test to find out if you have tuberculosis (TB) or another type of bacterial infection. TB was very common at one time. However, it’s now rare in the United States. According ...

Among 93 sputum smear slides read by standard microscopy, 34/93 (36.56%) were positive by standard microscopy examination; automated microscopy detected 97% (33/34) of these slides as positive in ...

A sputum stain for Mycobacteria is a laboratory test performed on a sample of your sputum, or phlegm. It’s also known as an acid-fast bacillus (AFB) stain or a tuberculosis (TB) smear. A doctor ...

The laboratory diagnosis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis combines rapid molecular assays, microscopic examination and culture‐based methods to achieve both prompt detection and definitive confirmation.