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Micro/Lab003
Acid-Fast Staining
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| whats the purpose of acid fast staining? | To detect cells capable of retaining a primary stain |
| what are the large blue stained areas on a sputum slide | fragmented white blood cells |
| what is the decolorizing agent in gram stain | ethyl alcohol, or ethyl alcohol acetone, or acetone |
| what is the decolorizing agent in acid fast stain | acid alcohol |
| what diseases are diagnosed using acid fast | tuberculosis, leprosy, nocardiosis, acitinomycete, & cryptospordium infections |
| what is phenol and what is its usual application | phenol (carbolic acid) is a disinfectant, it was a disinfected used by lister |
| how might the acid fast characteristic of mycobacterium enhance the organisms ability to cause a disease? | Cell wall includes lipids resist; drying, stress, harsh conditions, & phagocytes |
| clinical specimens suspected of containing mycobacterium are digested with sodium hydroxide for 30 mins prior to staining why is this used, why isnt this used for other bacteria | digestion removes:sputum, & human cells, others would be killed |
| the acid fast stain is used to detect cryptospordium protozoa in fecal samples, which would you expect to be a major compotent of their cell wall lipid, carbohydrates, or proteins? what disease is caused by crytospordium? | lipids, cryptosporidiosis diarrheal disease |
| in 1882 after experimenting with staining mycobacterium, paul ehrlich wrote that only alkaline disinfectants would be effective against mycobacterium, how did he reach this conclusion without disinfectants | mycobacterium are resistant to acid |