- Mycobacterium tuberculosis organisms are identified by their red color on acid-fast staining (Ziehl–Neelsen stain)
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (acid-fast stain rods)
- The granulomas of tuberculosis tend to contain necrosis (“caseating tubercules“)
- these granuolomas contain Langhans giant cells,which have a “horseshoe” patern of nuclei
Tuberculosis Granuloma and Giant multinucleated cell
multinucleated giant cells of the Langhans type
