A colleague asks you to interpret an acid-fast stain on a patient's sputum sample. What...

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A colleague asks you to interpret an acid-fast stain on a patient's sputum sample. What is your interpretation?They must have messed-up; this can't be an acid-fast stainThe patient HAS a mycobacterium infectionThe patient does NOT have a mycobacterium infectionThere are acid-fast cells, but they don't look like mycobacteria

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