Preferred Label : Prevotella melaninogenica;
NCIt related terms : Bacteroides melaninogenicus;
NCIt definition : A species of anaerobic, Gram-negative, rod shaped bacteria assigned to the phylum
Bacteroidetes. This species is non-motile, non-spore-forming, produces a tan to buff
pigment on blood agar, fluoresces under UV (365 nm) light, sucrose, lactose, and beta-N-acetyl-glucosaminidase
positive, but xylose arabinose, cellobiose, rhamnose, salicin, indole, esculin hydrolysis
beta-glucosidase, and glycine aminopeptidase negative. P. melaninogenica is part of
the normal human oral and vaginal flora, but can also be an opportunistic pathogen
causing infections in both humans and animals.;
Alternative definition : CDISC: Any bacterial organism that can be assigned to the species Prevotella melaninogenica.;
Taxon ID : 28132;
Origin ID : C86673;
UMLS CUI : C0004670;
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- Semantic type(s)
- UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- concept_is_in_subset
