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THORNWOOD, NY, June 10, 2008 – Today, one in three persons is infected with the tuberculosis pathogen, and the World Heath Organization (WHO) estimates that there will be 30 million deaths caused by tuberculosis in the next year, due to the development of multi-resistant strains and co-infection with HIV/AIDS. The traditional technique of diagnosing tuberculosis involved the Ziehl-Neelsen stain, also known as the acid-fast stain. Robert Koch, famous for isolating tuberculosis bacillus (and winning the Nobel Prize for it), used an alkaline mixture of aniline dyes as his method of staining the bacteria. He presented his...Read full article

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    Published: June 2008
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