Bacterium
neisseria cinerea
Subclass of:
Neisseria
Definitions related to neisseria cinerea:
  • A species of anaerobic, Gram-negative, diplococci shaped bacteria assigned to the phylum Proteobacteria. This species is oxidase positive, reduces nitrite, but not nitrate, produces carbonic anhydrase, does not hydrolyze tributyrin, is non-hemolytic, and does not produce acid from glucose, maltose, fructose, sucrose, mannose, or lactose. N. cinerea is commensal in the human nasal and oropharyngeal tract, and is considered non-pathogenic, but can become pathogenic in immunocompromised individuals.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • A species of gram-negative, aerobic bacteria found in the human NASOPHARYNX.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
  • Any bacterial organism that can be assigned to the species Neisseria cinerea.
    CDISC Terminology
    Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
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