National Cancer Institute Thesaurus

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Preferred Name

Alternaria

Synonyms

ALTERNARIA

Alternaria

Definitions

A genus of dematiaceous fungi within the phylum Ascomycota that are ubiquitous in nature and are common allergens in humans. Members of the Alternaria genus produce septate, brown and filamentous hyphae, and may cause opportunistic infections in immunocompromised individuals, such as phaeohyphomycosis, onychomycosis, sinusitis, ulcerated cutaneous infections, keratitis, visceral infections and osteomyelitis.

ID

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C119320

ALT_DEFINITION

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

code

C119320

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 dematiaceous fungi within the phylum Ascomycota that are ubiquitous in nature and are common allergens in humans. Members of the Alternaria genus produce septate, brown and filamentous hyphae, and may cause opportunistic infections in immunocompromised individuals, such as phaeohyphomycosis, onychomycosis, sinusitis, ulcerated cutaneous infections, keratitis, visceral infections and osteomyelitis.

FULL_SYN

ALTERNARIA

Alternaria

label

Alternaria

NCBI_Taxon_ID

5598

Preferred_Name

Alternaria

prefixIRI

Thesaurus:C119320

Semantic_Type

Fungus

UMLS_CUI

C0002343

subClassOf

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

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