Preferred Label : Cryptococcus gattii;
NCIt synonyms : C. bacillisporus; C. gattii;
NCIt related terms : Cryptococcus bacillisporus;
NCIt definition : An encapsulated yeast in the phylum Basidiomycota. This species is globose to ovoid
shaped, urease-positive, pseudohyphae- and nitrate-negative, does not ferment sugars,
and assimilates glucose, maltose, sucrose, galactose, trehalose, raffinose, inositol,
cellobiose, rhamnose, arabinose, melezitose and xylose. C. gattii is a human opportunistic
pathogen and causes pulmonary cryptococcosis, basal meningitis and cerebral cryptococcomas
in immunocompromised hosts. It is also associated with skin, soft tissue, lymph node,
bone, and joint infections.;
Alternative definition : CDISC: Any fungal organism that can be assigned to the species Cryptococcus gattii.;
Taxon ID : 552467;
Origin ID : C114268;
UMLS CUI : C0446010;
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- Semantic type(s)
- UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Validated automatic mappings to BTNT
- concept_is_in_subset
