National Cancer Institute Thesaurus

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Preferred Name

Streptococcus sanguinis
Synonyms

STREPTOCOCCUS SANGUINIS

Streptococcus sanguinis

Streptococcus sanguis

Definitions

A species of facultatively anaerobic, Gram positive, cocci shaped bacteria in the phylum Firmicutes. This species is alpha hemolytic, arginine deaminase positive, hydrolysis esculin, and urease and catalase negative. It can ferment inulin and trehalose but not mannitol, sorbitol, or raffinose. S. sanguinis is found in the normal oral flora of humans and is a pathogen that can cause dental caries, and endocarditis after dental injury.

ID

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C86806

ALT_DEFINITION

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

code

C86806

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, arginine deaminase positive, hydrolysis esculin, and urease and catalase negative. It can ferment inulin and trehalose but not mannitol, sorbitol, or raffinose. S. sanguinis is found in the normal oral flora of humans and is a pathogen that can cause dental caries, and endocarditis after dental injury.

FDA_UNII_Code

VW63P65MTF

FULL_SYN

STREPTOCOCCUS SANGUINIS

Streptococcus sanguinis

Streptococcus sanguis

label

Streptococcus sanguinis

NCBI_Taxon_ID

1305

Preferred_Name

Streptococcus sanguinis

prefixIRI

Thesaurus:C86806

Semantic_Type

Bacterium

UMLS_CUI

C0038412

subClassOf

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

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