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Preferred Name

Streptococcus bovis
Synonyms

STREPTOCOCCUS BOVIS

Streptococcus bovis

Streptococcus equinus

Definitions

A species of facultatively anaerobic, Gram positive, cocci shaped bacteria in the phylum Firmicutes. This species is positive for arginine deamination and negative for catalase, oxidase, hemolysis, growth in 6.5% NaCl and urease. It can ferment raffinose but not arabinose, mannitol, lactose or glycerol. S. bovis is found in the alimentary tract of ruminants and is a human pathogen that can cause bacteremia, sepsis or endocarditis.

ID

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C86784

ALT_DEFINITION

Any bacterial organism that can be assigned to the species Streptococcus bovis.

code

C86784

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 in the phylum Firmicutes. This species is positive for arginine deamination and negative for catalase, oxidase, hemolysis, growth in 6.5% NaCl and urease. It can ferment raffinose but not arabinose, mannitol, lactose or glycerol. S. bovis is found in the alimentary tract of ruminants and is a human pathogen that can cause bacteremia, sepsis or endocarditis.

FULL_SYN

STREPTOCOCCUS BOVIS

Streptococcus bovis

Streptococcus equinus

label

Streptococcus bovis

NCBI_Taxon_ID

1335

Preferred_Name

Streptococcus bovis

prefixIRI

Thesaurus:C86784

Semantic_Type

Bacterium

UMLS_CUI

C0085496

subClassOf

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C86785

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