Preferred Label : Staphylococcus capitis;
NCIt definition : A species of facultatively anaerobic, Gram positive, cocci shaped bacteria in the
phylum Firmicutes. This species is catalase positive, and negative for alkaline phosphatase,
urease, oxidase and coagulase. It is able to ferment glucose, fructose, lactose, trehalose,
glycerol, and mannitol, but not arabinose, sucrose, xylose, turanose, xylitol, rhamnose,
or maltose. S. capitis is part of the human skin flora but is a pathogen that can
cause pneumonia, urinary tract infection, catheter related bacteremia, cellulitis,
and endocarditis.;
Alternative definition : CDISC: Any bacterial organism that can be assigned to the species Staphylococcus capitis.;
Taxon ID : 29388;
Origin ID : C86752;
UMLS CUI : C1269175;
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- Semantic type(s)
- UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- concept_is_in_subset
