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Is mycobacterium tuberculosis gram positive

2018-09-09 11:42:02
Some say Mycobacterium tuberculosis is gram-negative and some say it is gram-positive. I want to know where it is negative or positive. Is Mycobacterium tuberculosis gram positive? What features make it positive?
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Myc tuberculosis is not diagnosed using gram stain. In any case it may be weakly gram positive sometimes and may not stain positive sometimes. So there is no significance of gram staining of Myc tuberculosis

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