Corynebacterium ulcerans

Preferred Label : Corynebacterium ulcerans;

NCIt definition : A species of aerobic or facultatively anaerobic, Gram-positive, coryneform, pleomorphic bacilli assigned to the phylum Actinobacteria. This species is nonmotile, non-spore forming, catalase positive, oxidase negative, does not reduce nitrate, hydrolyzes gelatin and hippurate but not urease or esculin and is not acid fast. C. ulcerans is commensal to the animal and human nasopharynx, but toxin producing strains can cause diphtherial-like illness.;

Alternative definition : CDISC: Any bacterial organism that can be assigned to the species Corynebacterium ulcerans.;

Taxon ID : 65058;

Details

Origin ID

C86324;

UMLS CUI

C0445705;

Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Corynebacterium ulcerans [MeSH Supplementary Concept]
- Corynebacterium ulcerans [MeSH concept]
- Corynebacterium ulcerans [NCBI Taxonomy bacteria]
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- Corynebacterium ulcerans (organism) [SNOMED CT concept]
- corynebacterium ulcerans [SNOMED Notion]
Semantic type(s)
- Bacterium [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Corynebacterium ulcerans [MeSH Supplementary Concept]
- Corynebacterium ulcerans [NCBI Taxonomy bacteria]
- Corynebacterium ulcerans (organism) [SNOMED CT concept]
- corynebacterium ulcerans [SNOMED Notion]
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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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