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Auramine staining in detecting small number of bacilli in skin smears
V N Bhatia1, E Cherian, S Harikrishnan
1Division of Laboratories, Central Leprosy Teaching and Research Institute, Tamil Nadu, India.
Indian Journal of Leprosy
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
Auramine staining has been compared with Ziehl-Neelsen's staining of M. leprae in skin smear slide. The auramine method was found to be more sensitive than Ziehl-Neelsen's method and may be useful in detecting small number of M. leprae in skin smears. The inter-observer variance was minimal with auramine staining.