Nocardia asteroides

Preferred Label : Nocardia asteroides;

NCIt definition : A species of aerobic, Gram-positive, rod shaped bacteria assigned to the phylum Actinobacteria. This species is catalase and urease positive, acid-fast, hydrolyzes esculin but not casein, reduces nitrate, and characteristically produces a mycelium that fragments into bacillary and coccoid elements. N. asteroides is naturally found in soil, ans lake and marine sediment where it digests plant matter; but in humans it is an opportunistic pathogen and one of the causative agents of nocardiosis in immunocompromised individuals.;

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

Taxon ID : 1824;

Details

Origin ID

C86611;

UMLS CUI

C0028241;

Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Nocardia asteroides [NCBI Taxonomy bacteria]
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- Nocardia asteroides [ICD-11 Extension code]
- Nocardia asteroides (organism) [SNOMED CT concept]
- nocardia asteroides [MeSH Descriptor]
- nocardia asteroides [MeSH concept]
- nocardia asteroides [SNOMED Notion]
Semantic type(s)
- Bacterium [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Nocardia asteroides [ICD-11 Extension code]
- Nocardia asteroides [NCBI Taxonomy bacteria]
- Nocardia asteroides (organism) [SNOMED CT concept]
- nocardia asteroides [MeSH concept]
- nocardia asteroides [MeSH Descriptor]
- nocardia asteroides [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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