Preferred Label : Mycobacterium fortuitum;
NCIt definition : A species of aerobic, Gram positive, rod shaped bacterium assigned to the phylum Actinobacteria.
This species is acid fast, nonmotile, urease negative and catalase, nitrate reductase,
and esculin positive. M. fortuitum is found in natural and processed water sources,
sewage and dirt, and can cause various clinical syndromes, including local disease
after injury or surgical trauma, and disseminated infection in immunocompromised patients.;
Alternative definition : CDISC: Any bacterial organism that can be assigned to the species Mycobacterium fortuitum.;
Taxon ID : 1766;
Origin ID : C86538;
UMLS CUI : C0317763;
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- Semantic type(s)
- UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- concept_is_in_subset
