| Preferred Name |
Clostridium perfringens |
| ID |
http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C86288 |
| ALT_DEFINITION |
Any bacterial organism that can be assigned to the species Clostridium perfringens. |
| code |
C86288 |
| Concept_In_Subset |
http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C66830 |
| Contributing_Source |
CDISC |
| DEFINITION |
A species of anaerobic, Gram positive, rod shaped bacteria assigned to the phylum Proteobacteria. This species is motile, hydrolyzes gelatin, produces enterotoxin, is beta-hemolytic and catalase negative. C. perfringens is a food borne pathogen, being the causative agent of pig-bel syndrome and gas gangrene. |
| FULL_SYN |
Clostridium welchii |
| label |
Clostridium perfringens |
| NCBI_Taxon_ID |
1502 |
| Preferred_Name |
Clostridium perfringens |
| prefixIRI |
C86288 |
| prefLabel |
Clostridium perfringens |
| Semantic_Type |
Bacterium |
| UMLS_CUI |
C0009063 |
| subClassOf |