Bunge-Trantenroth stain

Bunge-Trantenroth stain

A histological method for differentiating pathogenic Mycobacterium spp (“acid-fast" bacilli) from the essentially nonpathogenetic Mycobacterium smegmatis; the most widely preferred method for identifying acid-fast bacilli is the Ziehl-Neelsen stain; it is not used in the working medical parlance.