National Cancer Institute Thesaurus

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Preferred Name

Malassezia furfur

Synonyms

Pityrosporum ovale

Saccharomyces ovalis

Pityrosporum orbiculare

MALASSEZIA FURFUR

Malassezia furfur

Definitions

A species of obligatory lipophilic, anthropophilic yeast in the phylum Basidiomycota that is part of the normal human skin flora. This species is the causative agent of pityriasis versicolor.

ID

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C127729

ALT_DEFINITION

Any fungal organism that can be assigned to the species Malassezia furfur.

code

C127729

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 species of obligatory lipophilic, anthropophilic yeast in the phylum Basidiomycota that is part of the normal human skin flora. This species is the causative agent of pityriasis versicolor.

FULL_SYN

Pityrosporum ovale

Saccharomyces ovalis

Pityrosporum orbiculare

MALASSEZIA FURFUR

Malassezia furfur

label

Malassezia furfur

Preferred_Name

Malassezia furfur

prefixIRI

Thesaurus:C127729

Semantic_Type

Fungus

UMLS_CUI

C0032030

subClassOf

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C127292

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