Mycobacterium simiae

Preferred Label : Mycobacterium simiae;

NCIt related terms : Mycobacterium habana;

NCIt definition : A species of aerobic, Gram positive, rod shaped bacterium assigned to the phylum Actinobacteria. This species is acid fast, does not grow on MacConkey agar, catalase, urease and niacin positive, and negative for nitrite reduction and Tween 80 hydrolysis. M. simiae is found primarily in the southwestern United States, Israel and Cuba, with tap water as its suspected reservoir. It causes infection mainly in immunocompromised patients and is often resistant to most conventional anti-tuberculosis medications including rifabutin.;

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

Taxon ID : 1784;

Details

Origin ID

C86548;

UMLS CUI

C0317752;

Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Mycobacterium simiae [ICD-11 Extension code]
- Mycobacterium simiae [NCBI Taxonomy bacteria]
- Mycobacterium simiae [MeSH Supplementary Concept]
- Mycobacterium simiae [MeSH concept]
- mycobacterium [MeSH Descriptor]
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- Mycobacterium simiae (organism) [SNOMED CT concept]
- mycobacterium simiae [SNOMED Notion]
Semantic type(s)
- Bacterium [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Mycobacterium simiae [MeSH Supplementary Concept]
- Mycobacterium simiae [NCBI Taxonomy bacteria]
- Mycobacterium simiae (organism) [SNOMED CT concept]
- mycobacterium simiae [SNOMED Notion]
concept_is_in_subset
- CDISC SDTM Microorganism Terminology [NCIt concept]
- CDISC SDTM Terminology [NCIt concept]
- Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium Terminology [NCIt concept]

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