Preferred Label : Acid-Fast Bacilli Measurement;
NCIt related terms : AFB; Acid-Fast Bacilli;
NCIt definition : The determination of the amount of acid-fast bacilli present in a sample.;
Alternative definition : CDISC: A measurement of any rod-shaped bacteria that resist decolorizing by acid after
accepting an aqueous stain solution, due to the mycolic acids in their cell walls.;
NCI Metathesaurus CUI : CL512513;
Origin ID : C128981;
UMLS CUI : C4284398;
Semantic type(s)
- concept_is_in_subset
