Preferred Label : Prevotella nigrescens;
NCIt definition : A species of obligately anaerobic, Gram-negative, rod shaped bacteria assigned to
the phylum Bacteroidetes. This species is nonmotile, non-spore forming, produces characteristic
black pigmented colonies with a cream center on blood agar, fluoresces under UV (360
nm) light, indole positive, lipase negative, digests gelatin, hydrolyzes starch, but
not esculin, and produces acid from glucose, dextrin, maltose, and sucrose, but not
cellobiose, lactose, amygdalin, arabinose, rhamnose, salicin or xylose. P. nigrescens
is part of the normal human oral flora, but is also associated with gingivitis and
periodontitis.;
Alternative definition : CDISC: Any bacterial organism that can be assigned to the species Prevotella nigrescens.;
Taxon ID : 28133;
Origin ID : C86674;
UMLS CUI : C0445944;
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- Semantic type(s)
- UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- concept_is_in_subset
