National Cancer Institute Thesaurus

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Preferred Name

Bifidobacterium bifidum
Synonyms

BIFIDOBACTERIUM BIFIDUM

Bifidobacterium bifidum

Definitions

A species of anaerobic, Gram-positive, rod shaped bacteria assigned to the phylum Actinobacteria. This species is nonmotile, non-spore forming, catalase and indole negative and ferments only lactose and cellobiose. B. bifidum is a commensal part of the normal human gastrointestinal tract and vaginal flora and is used in the fermentation of dairy products and as a probiotic.

ID

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C86197

ALT_DEFINITION

Any bacterial organism that can be assigned to the species Bifidobacterium bifidum.

code

C86197

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 anaerobic, Gram-positive, rod shaped bacteria assigned to the phylum Actinobacteria. This species is nonmotile, non-spore forming, catalase and indole negative and ferments only lactose and cellobiose. B. bifidum is a commensal part of the normal human gastrointestinal tract and vaginal flora and is used in the fermentation of dairy products and as a probiotic.

FULL_SYN

BIFIDOBACTERIUM BIFIDUM

Bifidobacterium bifidum

label

Bifidobacterium bifidum

NCBI_Taxon_ID

1681

Preferred_Name

Bifidobacterium bifidum

prefixIRI

Thesaurus:C86197

Semantic_Type

Bacterium

UMLS_CUI

C0314974

subClassOf

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C86194

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