Preferred Label : Yersinia pestis;
NCIt synonyms : Pasteurella pestis;
NCIt definition : A species of facultatively anaerobic, Gram negative, rod shaped bacteria in the phylum
Proteobacteria. This species is motile, positive for coagulase and fibrinolysin and
negative for urease, indole, ornithine decarboxylase, oxidase, and pyrazinamidase.
Some strains are able to ferment melibiose but none can metabolize sorbose, rhamnose,
cellobiose, sucrose, or sorbitol. Y. pestis is found in rodents and fleas and is a
pathogen that can cause pneumonic, septicemic and bubonic plague types in humans.;
Alternative definition : CDISC: Any bacterial organism that can be assigned to the species Yersinia pestis.;
UNII : S6JJH3XV1D;
Taxon ID : 632;
Origin ID : C86860;
UMLS CUI : C0043408;
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- Semantic type(s)
- UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- concept_is_in_subset
