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Acid Fast Bacilli Stain (AFB) Test

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Acid-fast bacillus test, AFB smear for tuberculosis

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Sample Type

Blood

Fasting Required

No

Tube Type

Plain

Description

AFB(Acid Fast Bacillus) staining is a test to detect Mycobacteria in a sample of sputum. You may need this test when you have signs and symptoms of a lung infection, such as a chronic cough, weight loss, fever, chills, and weakness, that may be due to TB or a nontuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) infection; when you have a positive TB screening test and you are in a high-risk group for progressing to active disease; when you have a skin or other body site infection that may be due to mycobacteria; when you are undergoing treatment for TB. An acid-fast bacillus is a group of bacteria with a physical property that allows them to resist decolourisation when they are stained using acids during staining procedures. The AFB stain test uses this property to detect the presence of this bacteria since the bacteria can not be decolourised using acids. This unique characteristic makes it simple to detect the presence of acid-fast bacilli using a simple diagnostic test. The acid-fast stain test is specifically used for the detection of M. tuberculosis that causes tuberculosis. Tuberculosis is a potentially fatal infection that is infectious in nature and spreads from person to person through tiny air droplets released in the air when an affected person coughs or sneezes. The AFB test uses sputum; a thick mucus coughed up from lungs that are different from saliva or spit. This disease mainly affects the lungs and requires a patient to take medications to get rid of tuberculosis. Many tuberculosis strains are resistant to the medications used to treat TB. Hence, people with active tuberculosis may need to take several drugs to get free from the infection entirely and to prevent antibiotic resistance. Doctors prescribe the acid-fast bacilli stain test to people who display symptoms of tuberculosis. These symptoms include persistent cough for three or more weeks, coughing blood and mucus, chest pain, chronic fever, night sweats and chills, etc. Tuberculosis can also affect other parts of your body such as kidneys or the brain. The symptoms can vary if TB occurs outside your lungs. Approximately the average prevalence of all forms of TB across India was estimated to be 5 per thousand. There is a prevalence of around 2.27 per thousand smear-positive cases, with an average annual incidence of 84 per 1,00,000 smear-positive cases annually.

How our test process works!

Vaccinated Phlebotomists

Only vaccinated phlebos are assigned orders

Maintains Safety Precautions

Phlebo wears the mask,face shield and gloves & sanitizes himself before visiting the location

Sample Collection

Vaccinated Phlebotomists collects from syringe in the barcoded vials

Sample Storage

Vials are placed in a cooling container to maintain the temperature

High Tech Facility

Lab ingests the samples into processing machines which are 100% automated

Accurate Digital Reports

The reports are generated by the processing machines and clinically correlated by doctors

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