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Franz Ziehl

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Franz Ziehl (13 April 1857 in Wismar – 7 April 1926) was a German bacteriologist. He was a professor in Lübeck.

Franz Ziehl introduced the carbol fuchsin stain for the tubercle bacillus in 1882. With pathologist Friedrich Neelsen (1854–1898), he developed the Ziehl–Neelsen stain,[1] also known as the acid-fast stain, which is used to identify acid-fast bacteria.

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  1. ^ Bishop, P. J.; Neumann, G. (1 June 1970). "The history of the Ziehl-Neelsen stain". Tubercle. pp. 196–206. doi:10.1016/0041-3879(70)90073-5. Retrieved 27 June 2024.
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