Category:OMP:0000199 ! acid-fast staining phenotype

name: acid-fast staining phenotype
def: "A cell-staining phenotype where a cell or cells are classified based on whether they are decolorized by an acid-alcohol mixture after staining, typically with carbolfuchsin." [ISBN:978-0-07-729281-1, OMP:DAS]
subset: qc_do_not_manually_annotate
is_a: OMP:0000214 ! cell staining phenotype
comment: This is a high-level term whose primary purpose is to organize terms beneath it in the ontology, and we expect that it will not be used for direct annotations. Please consider using a more specific term to annotate each phenotype.