clostridium perfringens

Preferred Label : clostridium perfringens;

MeSH definition : The most common etiologic agent of GAS GANGRENE. It is differentiable into several distinct types based on the distribution of twelve different toxins.;

MeSH synonym : clostridium welchii;

MeSH annotation : infection GAS GANGRENE if in text; otherwise coord IM with CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS (IM);

Wikipedia link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clostridium perfringens;

UNII : txid1502;

Details

Origin ID

D003016;

UMLS CUI

C0009063;

Allowable qualifiers
- chemistry [MeSH Qualifier]
- classification [MeSH Qualifier]
- cytology [MeSH Qualifier]
- drug effects [MeSH Qualifier]
- enzymology [MeSH Qualifier]
- genetics [MeSH Qualifier]
- growth and development [MeSH Qualifier]
- immunology [MeSH Qualifier]
- isolation and purification [MeSH Qualifier]
- metabolism [MeSH Qualifier]
- pathogenicity [MeSH Qualifier]
- physiology [MeSH Qualifier]
- radiation effects [MeSH Qualifier]
- ultrastructure [MeSH Qualifier]
- virology [MeSH Qualifier]
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- Clostridium perfringens [ICD-11 Extension code]
- Clostridium perfringens [Blood Transfusion thesaurus concept]
- Clostridium perfringens [LOINC component]
- Clostridium perfringens [NCBI Taxonomy bacteria]
- Clostridium perfringens [NCIt concept]
- Clostridium perfringens (organism) [SNOMED CT concept]
- clostridium perfringens [SNOMED Notion]
Indexing information
- ASSP C1 protein, clostridium [MeSH Supplementary Concept]
- Clostridium perfringens toxoid [MeSH Supplementary Concept]
- acid-soluble spore protein C2, clostridium perfringens [MeSH Supplementary Concept]
- clostridium perfringens delta-toxin [MeSH Supplementary Concept]
- clostridium perfringens epsilon-toxin [MeSH Supplementary Concept]
- clostridium perfringens theta-toxin [MeSH Supplementary Concept]
- enterotoxin, Clostridium [MeSH Supplementary Concept]
- iota toxin, clostridium perfringens [MeSH Supplementary Concept]
- welchicin [MeSH Supplementary Concept]
Record concept(s)
- clostridium perfringens [MeSH concept]
See also inter- (CISMeF)
- clostridium perfringens infection [Disease (Nov.)]
Semantic type(s)
- Bacterium [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Clostridium perfringens [ICD-11 Extension code]
- Clostridium perfringens [LOINC component]
- Clostridium perfringens [NCBI Taxonomy bacteria]
- Clostridium perfringens [NCIt concept]
- Clostridium perfringens (organism) [SNOMED CT concept]
- clostridium perfringens [SNOMED Notion]

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