Preferred Label : Staphylococcus Aureus;
NCIt synonyms : Staph. aureus;
NCIt related terms : S. AUREUS;
NCIt definition : A common bacterial species found especially on nasal mucous membrane and skin (hair
follicles); bacterial species that produces exotoxins including those that cause toxic
shock syndrome, with resulting skin rash, and renal, hepatic, and central nervous
system disease, and an enterotoxin associated with food poisoning; it causes furunculosis,
cellulitis, pyemia, pneumonia, osteomyelitis, endocarditis, suppuration of wounds,
other infections; also a cause of infection in burn patients; humans are the chief
reservoir.;
Alternative definition : CDISC: Any bacterial organism that can be assigned to the species Staphylococcus aureus.;
FDA table : Patient Code (Appendix B);
UNII : O478WX4004;
Taxon ID : 1280;
Origin ID : C50921;
UMLS CUI : C0038172;
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- False automatic mappings
- Semantic type(s)
- UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- concept_is_in_subset
