| acid-fast |
not easily decolorized by acid solutions; pertains to micro-organisms (especially the tubercle bacillus that causes tuberculosis)
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| acid-fast bacillus |
ABBR: AFB. A bacillus not readily decolorized by acids or other means when stained. Mycobacterium tuberculosis is one example of an acid-fast bacillus.
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| acid-fast b. |
one that retains stains by dyes (e.g., carbolfuchsin or auramine) so tenaciously that it is not decolorized by 5 per cent mineral acids, especially Mycobacterium species and Nocardia.
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| acid-fast s. |
a staining procedure for demonstrating acid-fast microorganisms. See Kinyoun carbolfuchsin s. and Ziehl-Neelsen s.
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| acid-fast |
lipids & peptidoglycan; Mycobacterium
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