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AFB
(redirected from Acid-Fast Bacteria)

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AFBAir Force Base
AFBAmerican Foundation for the Blind
AFBAir Force Board (Air Force acquisitions functional group)
AFBAmerican Foulbrood (a honeybee disease)
AFBAcid Fast Bacillus
AFBArbeitsstelle Friedensforschung Bonn (German: Peace Research Information Unit Bonn)
AFBAcid-Fast Bacteria
AFBAutofluorescence Bronchoscopy
AFBApplication for Benefits
AFBAway from Brain
AFBAtmospheric Fluidized Bed
AFBAnti-Friction Bearing
AFBAdhesive-Free Bond (trademark of Onyx Optics, Inc.)
AFBAirframe Bulletin
AFBAnaerobic Fluidized Bed
AFBAlcohol Free Beverage
AFBArmed for Battle (band)
AFBAluminum Four Barrel (auto carburetor)
AFBArc Fault Breaker (electrical)
AFBAward Fee Board
AFBAssault Float Bridge
AFBAmerican Farm Bureau, Inc.
AFBAnderson Ferry Boat (Cincinnati, Ohio)
AFBAccelerated Forward Backward (radar image analysis)
AFBAdministrative Faldskærms Bestemmelser
AFBAxial Flow Blower
AFBAktion für Berlin (German Political Party)
AFBAbsolute Fairness Bounds
AFBAssociation Francaise des Bourses
AFBAmerican Four Barrel (carburetor)


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On all patients' clinical examinations, chest radiographs, sputum smears for staining of acid-fast bacteria, HIV testing, and culturing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex strains were performed.
Biopsy specimens were negative for acid-fast bacteria and mycobacterial growth (again, different solid and liquid media, extended incubation periods).
Culture for common bacteria and fungi was negative, but culture of a sterile nodule aspirate on Lowenstein-Jensen medium was positive for acid-fast bacteria after 5 weeks.
 
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