Fluorescent microscopy and Ziehl-Neelsen staining of bronchoalveolar lavage, bronchial washings, bronchoscopic brushing and post bronchoscopic sputum along with cytological examination in cases of suspected tuberculosis

• Egile Nagusiak: Vijay Kumar Bodal (Egilea), Manjit S Bal (Egilea), Sunita Bhagat (Egilea), Jai Kishan (Egilea), Deepika (Egilea), Rupinder K Brar (Egilea)
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• Argitaratua: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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Objectives: Ever since the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in 1882, many diagnostic methods have been developed. However "The gold standard" for the diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) is still the demonstration of acid fast Bacilli (AFB) by microscopic examination of smear or bacteriol...