Auramine phenol stain

Auramine phenol stain is a stain used in clinical microbiology and histology to identify tuberculosis mycobacteria.

Auramine phenol is a fluorescent stain used for the demonstration of acid fast bacilli. Mycolic acids of the mycobacteria keep this stain when decolorising with the acid alcohol.

Tuberculosis

Treatment/
vaccines

ATC code J04 · Isoniazid · 4-Aminosalicylic acid · Ethambutol · Capreomycin · Cycloserine · Rifampicin · Thioacetazone · Streptomycin · R207910 · RBCG30 · Pyrazinamide · MVA85A · Rifater

People/
History

Manuel de Abreu · Hermann Brehmer · Albert Calmette · Philip D'Arcy Hart · Christopher Dye · George M. Heath · Max Gerson · F. R. G. Heaf · Robert Koch · Marcos Espinal · Friedrich Franz Friedmann · Charles Mantoux · Richard Morton · Edward Livingston Trudeau · Carl Rüedi · Lucius Rüedi · Mario Raviglione · Madonna Swan

Conditions/
symptoms/signs

Caseous necrosis · Ghon focus/Ghon's complex · Giant multinucleated cell · Pott disease · Canga's bead symptom · Prosector's wart · Latent tuberculosis · Paronychia · Lupus vulgaris · Tuberculous lymphadenitis · Tuberculous meningitis · Miliary tuberculosis

Mycobacterium species

Mycobacterium tuberculosis · Mycobacterium africanum · Mycobacterium bovis · Mycobacterium bovis BCG · Mycobacterium caprae

Type by resistance

Multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis · Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis

Tests/diagnosis

Ziehl–Neelsen stain · Auramine phenol stain · Culture on Lowenstein-Jensen medium and/or MGIT · GeneXpert · Chest photofluorography · Tuberculin (Heaf test, Mantoux test, Tine test) · Interferon-γ release assays (QuantiFERON, T-SPOT.TB) · Microscopic Observation Drug Susceptibility assay

Organizations

Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium · Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation · Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria · Glen Lake Children's Camp · Glen Lake Sanatorium · Glenn Dale Hospital · The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria · Global Plan to Stop Tuberculosis · Unitaid · TB Alliance · Seattle Biomedical Research Institute · Stop TB Partnership · Millennium Foundation · Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Structural Genomics Consortium · National Jewish Medical and Research Center · Phipps Institute for the Study, Treatment and Prevention of Tuberculosis · Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines · Cure Cottages of Saranac Lake · International Congress on Tuberculosis

Other/ungrouped

2007 tuberculosis scare · 72F fusion protein · Tuberculosis in popular culture · Baumgarten-Tangl law · CFP-10 · Tuberculosis in China · ESAT-6 · Iowa Cow War · List of tuberculosis victims · Plombage · Preventorium · Sanatorium · Sunshine Way · Tuberculosis classification · Tuberculosis radiology · Tygerberg score · World Tuberculosis Day

M: BAC

bact (clas)

gr+f/gr+a(t)/gr-p(c)/gr-o

drug(J1p, w, n, m, vacc)