National Cancer Institute Thesaurus

Last uploaded: February 23, 2024
Preferred Name

Enterobacter aerogenes
Synonyms

Klebsiella aerogenes

Aerobacter aerogenes

Enterobacter aerogenes

ENTEROBACTER AEROGENES

Definitions

A species of facultatively anaerobic, Gram negative, rod shaped bacterium in the phylum Proteobacteria. This species is motile, oxidase and indole negative, catalase and citrate positive, ferments lactose and is considered a coliform bacteria. E. aerogenes is found in the gastrointestinal tract and is an opportunistic pathogen commonly acquired nosocomially, causing skin, soft tissue, respiratory, urinary tract and eye infections.

ID

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C86356

ALT_DEFINITION

Any bacterial organism that can be assigned to the species Enterobacter aerogenes.

code

C86356

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 negative, rod shaped bacterium in the phylum Proteobacteria. This species is motile, oxidase and indole negative, catalase and citrate positive, ferments lactose and is considered a coliform bacteria. E. aerogenes is found in the gastrointestinal tract and is an opportunistic pathogen commonly acquired nosocomially, causing skin, soft tissue, respiratory, urinary tract and eye infections.

FULL_SYN

Klebsiella aerogenes

Aerobacter aerogenes

Enterobacter aerogenes

ENTEROBACTER AEROGENES

label

Enterobacter aerogenes

NCBI_Taxon_ID

548

Preferred_Name

Enterobacter aerogenes

prefixIRI

Thesaurus:C86356

Semantic_Type

Bacterium

UMLS_CUI

C0728888

subClassOf

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C76310

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