Preferred Label : Staphylococcus hominis;
NCIt related terms : Coagulase Negative Staphylococcus hominis;
NCIt definition : A species of facultatively anaerobic, Gram positive, cocci shaped bacteria in the
phylum Firmicutes. This species is positive for catalase and urease and negative for
coagulase, oxidase, and alkaline phosphatase. It can ferment sucrose, maltose, glucose,
fructose, glycerol and trehalose but not mannitol, mannose, ribose, rhamnose, xylose,
arabinose, xylitol or cellobiose. S. hominis is a commensal organism found in the
normal flora of human skin and can cause opportunistic infections in immunocompromised
people.;
Alternative definition : CDISC: Any bacterial organism that can be assigned to the species Staphylococcus hominis.;
Taxon ID : 1290;
Origin ID : C86762;
UMLS CUI : C0318113;
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- Semantic type(s)
- UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- concept_is_in_subset
