AMRITSAR: The civil health authorities here have failed to provide a special container for sending the sputum sample of SARS suspect Partap Singh to National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD).
A sputum stain for Mycobacteria is a laboratory test performed on a sample of your sputum, or phlegm. It’s also known as an acid-fast bacillus (AFB) stain or a tuberculosis (TB) smear. A doctor ...