loading...| Preferred Name |
Neisseria meningitidis |
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| Synonyms |
meningitis vaccine meningococcal meningitis |
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| Definitions |
gram-negative, aerobic bacteria; a commensal and pathogen only of humans, and can be carried asymptomatically in the nasopharynx; when found in cerebrospinal fluid it is the causative agent of cerebrospinal meningitis; also found in venereal discharges and blood; there are at least 13 serogroups based on antigenic differences in the capsular polysaccharides; the ones causing most meningitis infections being A, B, C, Y, and W-135; each serogroup can be further classifed by serotype, serosubtype, and immunotype. |
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| ID |
http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/CSP/0348-7524 |
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| altLabel |
meningitis vaccine meningococcal meningitis |
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| cui |
C0025294 C0361275 C0027575 |
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| definition |
gram-negative, aerobic bacteria; a commensal and pathogen only of humans, and can be carried asymptomatically in the nasopharynx; when found in cerebrospinal fluid it is the causative agent of cerebrospinal meningitis; also found in venereal discharges and blood; there are at least 13 serogroups based on antigenic differences in the capsular polysaccharides; the ones causing most meningitis infections being A, B, C, Y, and W-135; each serogroup can be further classifed by serotype, serosubtype, and immunotype. |
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| DID |
0348-7524 |
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| notation |
0348-7524 |
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| prefLabel |
Neisseria meningitidis |
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| tui |
T116 T129 T007 T047 T121 |
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