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Preferred Name

Acremonium
Synonyms

ACREMONIUM

Acremonium

Definitions

A genus of slow growing, filamentous and cosmopolitan fungi within the phylum Ascomycota. Members of this genus produce hyaline, septate hyphae, whereas vegetative hyphae form hyphal ropes. Phialides are unbranched, solitary and erect, and form directly on the hyphal tips, the hyphal ropes, or both. Some species within the Acremonium genus are opportunistic pathogens and may cause mycetoma, onychomycosis, and hyalohyphomycosis in humans.

ID

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C118935

ALT_DEFINITION

Any fungal organism that is not assigned to the species level but can be assigned to the Acremonium genus level.

code

C118935

Concept_In_Subset

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C66830

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C61410

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C85491

Contributing_Source

CDISC

DEFINITION

A genus of slow growing, filamentous and cosmopolitan fungi within the phylum Ascomycota. Members of this genus produce hyaline, septate hyphae, whereas vegetative hyphae form hyphal ropes. Phialides are unbranched, solitary and erect, and form directly on the hyphal tips, the hyphal ropes, or both. Some species within the Acremonium genus are opportunistic pathogens and may cause mycetoma, onychomycosis, and hyalohyphomycosis in humans.

FULL_SYN

ACREMONIUM

Acremonium

label

Acremonium

NCBI_Taxon_ID

5043

Preferred_Name

Acremonium

prefixIRI

Thesaurus:C118935

Semantic_Type

Fungus

UMLS_CUI

C0001180

subClassOf

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C77167

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