Ms. Hungh, a Burmese immigrant, enters your clinic with her…

Ms. Hungh, a Burmese immigrant, enters your clinic with her interpreter complaining of fatigue, weight loss, persistent cough, and rust-colored sputum. The interpreter explains that Ms. Hungh has had this cough for many months in her home country and, now that she is in America, is seeking assistance for her condition. A sputum sample is ordered for microbial analysis in order to rule out the diagnosis of tuberculosis. Suspecting Mycobacterium tuberculosis may be the pathogen, you know that the laboratory technicians will perform which stain on the sample?