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Descriptor English: Mycobacterium haemophilum
Descriptor Spanish: Mycobacterium haemophilum
Descriptor Mycobacterium haemophilum
Scope note: Especie de bacterias grampositivas y aerobias que producen lesiones cutáneas granulomatosas o ulcerativas en personas inmunodeprimidas. Este organismo debe su nombre a que requiere altos niveles de hierro para su crecimiento, suministrado convenientemente como sangre, heme o citrato amónico férrico.
Descriptor Portuguese: Mycobacterium haemophilum
Descriptor French: Mycobacterium haemophilum
Entry term(s): Mycobacterium hemophilum
Tree number(s): B03.510.024.962.500.480
B03.510.460.400.410.552.552.480
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D018393
Scope note: A species of gram-positive, aerobic bacteria that causes granulomatous or ulcerating skin lesions in immunosuppressed persons. This organism owes its name to its requirement for growth of high levels of iron, conveniently supplied as blood, heme, or ferric ammonium citrate.
Annotation: infection: coord IM with MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS (IM); DF: MYCOBACT HAEMOPHILUM
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: Mycobacterium (1979-1994)
Public MeSH Note: 95
History Note: 95
Entry Version: MYCOBACT HAEMOPHILUM
DeCS ID: 32123
Unique ID: D018393
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Date Established: 1995/01/01
Date of Entry: 1994/01/25
Revision Date: 2009/07/06
Mycobacterium haemophilum - Preferred
Concept UI M0027619
Scope note A species of gram-positive, aerobic bacteria that causes granulomatous or ulcerating skin lesions in immunosuppressed persons. This organism owes its name to its requirement for growth of high levels of iron, conveniently supplied as blood, heme, or ferric ammonium citrate.
Preferred term Mycobacterium haemophilum
Entry term(s) Mycobacterium hemophilum



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