National Cancer Institute Thesaurus

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Preferred Name

Mycobacterium scrofulaceum

Synonyms

Mycobacterium scrofulaceum

MYCOBACTERIUM SCROFULACEUM

Definitions

A species of aerobic, Gram positive, rod shaped bacterium assigned to the phylum Actinobacteria. This species is acid fast, nonmotile, acid phosphatase and iron uptake negative and catalase, urease, pyrazinamidase and nicotinamidase positive. M. scrofulaceum is found in environmental sources such as house dust, soil, water, and sewage as well as food sources such as raw milk, and it is frequently associated with cervical adenitis in children.

ID

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C86547

ALT_DEFINITION

Any bacterial organism that can be assigned to the species Mycobacterium scrofulaceum.

code

C86547

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 aerobic, Gram positive, rod shaped bacterium assigned to the phylum Actinobacteria. This species is acid fast, nonmotile, acid phosphatase and iron uptake negative and catalase, urease, pyrazinamidase and nicotinamidase positive. M. scrofulaceum is found in environmental sources such as house dust, soil, water, and sewage as well as food sources such as raw milk, and it is frequently associated with cervical adenitis in children.

FULL_SYN

Mycobacterium scrofulaceum

MYCOBACTERIUM SCROFULACEUM

label

Mycobacterium scrofulaceum

NCBI_Taxon_ID

1783

Preferred_Name

Mycobacterium scrofulaceum

prefixIRI

Thesaurus:C86547

Semantic_Type

Bacterium

UMLS_CUI

C0026925

subClassOf

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C76369

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