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Descriptor English: Mycobacterium avium
Descriptor Spanish: Mycobacterium avium
Descriptor Mycobacterium avium
Scope note: Bacteria que produce tuberculosis en aves domésticas y en otras aves. En cerdos, puede producir enfermedades localizadas y en ocasiones diseminadas. El organismo ocasionalmente se aísla en carneros y ganado vacuno. Debe distinguirse del complejo M. avium, que infecta principalmente a humanos.
Descriptor Portuguese: Mycobacterium avium
Descriptor French: Mycobacterium avium
Tree number(s): B03.510.024.962.500.300
B03.510.460.400.410.552.552.300
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D009162
Scope note: A bacterium causing tuberculosis in domestic fowl and other birds. In pigs, it may cause localized and sometimes disseminated disease. The organism occurs occasionally in sheep and cattle. It should be distinguished from the M. avium complex, which infects primarily humans.
Annotation: infection in birds = TUBERCULOSIS, AVIAN; infection in other animals = TUBERCULOSIS /vet (IM) + MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM (IM); DF: MYCOBACT AVIUM
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
Public MeSH Note: 87; was see under MYCOBACTERIUM 1975-86
History Note: 87(75); was see under MYCOBACTERIUM 1975-86
Entry Version: MYCOBACT AVIUM
DeCS ID: 9355
Unique ID: D009162
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1987/01/01
Date of Entry: 1974/12/12
Revision Date: 2009/07/06
Mycobacterium avium - Preferred
Concept UI M0014284
Scope note A bacterium causing tuberculosis in domestic fowl and other birds. In pigs, it may cause localized and sometimes disseminated disease. The organism occurs occasionally in sheep and cattle. It should be distinguished from the M. avium complex, which infects primarily humans.
Preferred term Mycobacterium avium



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