If you had a mixed preparation of Staphylococcus aureus and Mycobacterium smegmatis on a slide and planned to do an acid-fast stain, but you accidentally used the decolorizer from the Gram stain kit instead of the acid-fast stain kit, what would you see when you looked at your slide? Why?
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