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Fast detection is extremely important to reduce transmission and mortality associated with these infectious agents. Manual smear microscopy is a cost-effective tool for diagnosing and monitoring of these organisms; however, it is labor-intensive and requires highly-trained personnel. We present the development of an artificial intelligence computer vision process using a deep convolutional neural network to detect acid-fast bacilli (AFB) from Kinyoun acid-fast stained slides. We collected 231 clinical specimens between August 2023 and June 2024. Following acid-fast staining, whole slide images (WSI) were digitized, and AFB organisms were manually annotated. A machine learning computer vision model was trained using 11,411 annotated organisms across 109 WSI. Model predictions were correlated with final culture-confirmed results. The final model estimated AFB density per 1000 x microscope field of view (FOV). 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