National Cancer Institute Thesaurus

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Preferred Name

Aerococcus viridans
Synonyms

Aerococcus viridans

AEROCOCCUS VIRIDANS

Definitions

A species of facultatively anaerobic, Gram positive, cocci shaped bacteria assigned to the phylum Firmicutes. This bacteria is catalase negative, alpha hemolytic, produces acid from maltose, lactose, sucrose and trehalose, and produces beta glucuronidase. A. viridans is rarely pathogenic in humans but may be associated with urinary tract infections and endocarditis in immunocompromised patients.

ID

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C86123

ALT_DEFINITION

Any bacterial organism that can be assigned to the species Aerococcus viridans.

code

C86123

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 facultatively anaerobic, Gram positive, cocci shaped bacteria assigned to the phylum Firmicutes. This bacteria is catalase negative, alpha hemolytic, produces acid from maltose, lactose, sucrose and trehalose, and produces beta glucuronidase. A. viridans is rarely pathogenic in humans but may be associated with urinary tract infections and endocarditis in immunocompromised patients.

FULL_SYN

Aerococcus viridans

AEROCOCCUS VIRIDANS

label

Aerococcus viridans

NCBI_Taxon_ID

1377

Preferred_Name

Aerococcus viridans

prefixIRI

Thesaurus:C86123

Semantic_Type

Bacterium

UMLS_CUI

C0016914

subClassOf

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C86121

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