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. 1973 Sep;26(3):426–428. doi: 10.1128/am.26.3.426-428.1973

Pyridine Extraction of Nocardial Acid Fastness

B L Beaman 1, J Burnside 1
PMCID: PMC379808  PMID: 4127425

Abstract

Several strains of Mycobacterium and Nocardia were stained for acid fastness by using the method of Kinyoun. Duplicate, glutaraldehyde-fixed smears were extracted with fresh pyridine prior to staining. The results clearly demonstrated that both in vivo- and in vitro-grown Nocardia differed from Mycobacterium by becoming nonacid fast after extraction. This pyridine extraction of nocardial acid fastness should have diagnostic and taxonomic application.

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