A positive test result from the acid-fast stain confirms the patient has TB. In other types of acid-fast bacteria such as Nocardia, only certain parts of each cell retain the dye, such as the wall ...

Nocardia species are Gram stain-positive and slightly acid-fast-staining aerobic-type actinomycetes species that may cause disseminated disease among immunosuppressed individuals. Nocardiosis must ...

Indications : Nocardia culture is carried out to establish ... cutaneous sites or the respiratory tract. Related Tests : Acid fast stain, Actinomyces culture, Sputum culture.

Acid-fast staining and culture of bronchoalveolar-lavage ... Failure to grow mycobacteria or nocardia from bronchoalveolar-lavage fluid would make these diagnoses unlikely. P.

nocardia scleritis and endophthalmitis resembles closely with fungal and NTM infections. Even in these cases, microscopic examination of ocular specimen using Gram stain as well as 1% acid-fast ...

Nocardia is found worldwide in soil and decaying ... Transbronchial biopsy was negative for malignancy. Gram stain of bronchoalveolar lavage fluid showed partially acid-fast gram-positive branching ...