- acid-fast bacterium
- a bacterium 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.
Medical dictionary. 2011.
acid-fast bacterium
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