Who discovered the acid stain first?

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The Ziehl-Neelsen stain, also known as the acid-fast stain,
was first described by two German doctors; Franz Ziehl
(1859 to 1926), a bacteriologist and Friedrich Neelsen
(1854 to 1894), a pathologist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziehl-Neelsen_stain

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