Toxoplasma gondii

Preferred Label : Toxoplasma gondii;

NCIt definition : A species of obligate intracellular, parasitic protozoa in the family Sarcocystidae. Birds and rodents act as intermediate hosts with wild and domestic cats acting as the definitive hosts. Animals bred for human consumption may also become infected with tissue cysts after ingestion of sporulated oocysts in the environment. Humans may become infected by ingestion of contaminated meat or water or through contact with feline feces. More rarely, infection may occur by congenital transmission or by receiving infected infected blood or organs.;

Alternative definition : CDISC: Any unicellular, eukaryotic organism that can be assigned to the species Toxoplasma gondii.;

Taxon ID : 5811;

Details

Origin ID

C125644;

UMLS CUI

C0040557;

Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- toxoplasma [MeSH Descriptor]
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- Toxoplasma gondii [LOINC component]
- Toxoplasma gondii [ICD-11 Extension code]
- Toxoplasma gondii [Blood Transfusion thesaurus concept]
- Toxoplasma gondii (organism) [SNOMED CT concept]
- toxoplasma gondii [SNOMED Notion]
- toxoplasma gondii [MeSH concept]
Semantic type(s)
- Eukaryote [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Toxoplasma gondii [LOINC component]
- Toxoplasma gondii [ICD-11 Extension code]
- Toxoplasma gondii (organism) [SNOMED CT concept]
- toxoplasma gondii [SNOMED Notion]
- toxoplasma gondii [MeSH concept]
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- CDISC SDTM Microorganism Terminology [NCIt concept]
- CDISC SDTM Terminology [NCIt concept]
- Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium Terminology [NCIt concept]

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