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. 2011 Oct;49(10):3604–3609. doi: 10.1128/JCM.00370-11

Fig. 3.

Fig. 3.

Comparative microscopic appearances showing the different positivity grades. An image for the ± grade is not shown, because it cannot be distinguished from the + grade in a pair of single pictures. In PBAS2, bacilli are stained dark and are more clearly distinguished than in the PBAS1 smears.