Multiple choice

Which of the following are bacteriological stains used to identify acid-fast organisms?

  1. Auramine-rhodamine stain
  2. Gram's stain
  3. Hoechst stain
  4. Kinyoun stain
  5. Ziehl-Neelsen stain Select the correct answer.

  1. 1, 2 and 3

  2. 1, 3 and 5

  3. 1, 4 and 5

  4. 2, 3 and 4

  5. 3, 4 and 5
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C Correct answer
Explanation

Auramine-rhodamine stain is a histological technique used to visualize acid-fast bacilli using fluorescence microscopy. Kinyoun stain is a method of staining acid-fast microbes, specifically Mycobacterium and Nocardia. Ziehl-Neelsen stain is used to identify the acid-fast bacteria mainly Mycobacterium.

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