| Features and Benefits |
- Slides stained with rhodamine-auramine may be restained with ziehl-neelsen or kinyoun stain directly, as long as the oil has been removed
- This provides a convenient method of confirming and differentiating morphology of positive slides with the traditional stains.
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- An aqueous solution of phenol, glycerine, isopropyl alcohol, rhodamine B and auramine O
- Auramine and rhodamine are fluorochromes that bind to mycolic acids and are resistant to decolorization with acid-alcohol (acid-fast stain)
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