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Descriptor English: Bifidobacterium
Descriptor Spanish: Bifidobacterium
Descriptor Bifidobacterium
Scope note: Bacteria bacilar, grampositiva, no resistente a la decoloración acidoalcohólica, no formadora de esporas, inmóvil, género de la familia Bifidobacteriaceae, orden Bifidobacteriales, clase ACTINOBACTERIA. Habita en los intestinos y heces de humanos así como en la vagina humana.
Descriptor Portuguese: Bifidobacterium
Descriptor French: Bifidobacterium
Tree number(s): B03.510.024.100
B03.510.460.400.400.049.100
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001644
Scope note: A rod-shaped, gram-positive, non-acid-fast, non-spore-forming, non-motile bacterium that is a genus of the family Bifidobacteriaceae, order Bifidobacteriales, class ACTINOBACTERIA. It inhabits the intestines and feces of humans as well as the human vagina.
Annotation: infection: coordinate with BIFIDOBACTERIALES INFECTIONS
Allowable Qualifiers: CH chemistry
CL classification
CY cytology
DE drug effects
EN enzymology
GD growth & development
GE genetics
IM immunology
IP isolation & purification
ME metabolism
PH physiology
PY pathogenicity
RE radiation effects
UL ultrastructure
VI virology
Previous Indexing: Actinomycetaceae (1975-1983)
Actinomycetales (1967-1974)
Public MeSH Note: 84
History Note: 84
Entry Version: BIFIDOBACT
DeCS ID: 1669
Unique ID: D001644
NLM Classification: QW 125.5.B4
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1984/01/01
Date of Entry: 1983/03/10
Revision Date: 2009/07/06
Bifidobacterium - Preferred
Concept UI M0002470
Scope note A rod-shaped, gram-positive, non-acid-fast, non-spore-forming, non-motile bacterium that is a genus of the family Bifidobacteriaceae, order Bifidobacteriales, class ACTINOBACTERIA. It inhabits the intestines and feces of humans as well as the human vagina.
Preferred term Bifidobacterium



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