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Preferred Name

Streptococcus oralis
Synonyms

STREPTOCOCCUS ORALIS

Streptococcus oralis

Definitions

A species of facultatively anaerobic, Gram positive, cocci shaped bacteria in the phylum Firmicutes. This species is alpha hemolytic, urease and catalase negative, sialidase and alpha glucosidase positive and does not hydrolyze esculin. It can ferment ribose, raffinose, and trehalose but not inulin, cellobiose, mannitol, or sorbitol. S. oralis is found in the human oral cavity and respiratory tract and can be a pathogen that causes dental caries, gum disease, and endocarditis following oral trauma.

ID

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C86799

ALT_DEFINITION

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

code

C86799

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

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C63923

Contributing_Source

CDISC

FDA

DEFINITION

A species of facultatively anaerobic, Gram positive, cocci shaped bacteria in the phylum Firmicutes. This species is alpha hemolytic, urease and catalase negative, sialidase and alpha glucosidase positive and does not hydrolyze esculin. It can ferment ribose, raffinose, and trehalose but not inulin, cellobiose, mannitol, or sorbitol. S. oralis is found in the human oral cavity and respiratory tract and can be a pathogen that causes dental caries, gum disease, and endocarditis following oral trauma.

FDA_UNII_Code

A41674465B

FULL_SYN

STREPTOCOCCUS ORALIS

Streptococcus oralis

label

Streptococcus oralis

NCBI_Taxon_ID

1303

Preferred_Name

Streptococcus oralis

prefixIRI

Thesaurus:C86799

Semantic_Type

Bacterium

UMLS_CUI

C0318174

subClassOf

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C76383

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