91779-9
Yeast identified in Upper respiratory specimen by Organism specific culture
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Part Descriptions
LP29134-1 Yeast
Fungi are eukaryotic microorganisms which manifest as yeasts, molds or a combination. Yeasts start as individual cells that reproduce by budding. Molds, which are long filaments or hyphae, grow by apical extension. Both yeasts and molds are heterotrophic and digest their food externally by absorptive nutrition. Taxonomically, yeast are characterized by their size and shape, the presence or absence of capsules, conidiogenesis (the process of daughter cell formation), presence of sexual spores, the formation of pseudo-and true hyphae and physiologic data. Species are differentiated based on the ability to assimilate and ferment carbon sources, and to utilize nitrate as nitrogen. Some opportunistic fungal pathogens found in humans are dimorphic. They grow as mycelium in nature and reproduce as yeast in the body. One example is Candida which can quickly transform from yeast to the hyphal phase in humans; this process helps it invade host tissue. [NCBI Books:NBK8125]
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LP6429-7 Organism specific culture
An organism-specific culture contains nutrients that optimize the growth of a specific organism and inhibitors that prevent the growth of competing organisms.
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Fully-Specified Name
- Component
- Yeast identified
- Property
- Prid
- Time
- Pt
- System
- Respiratory system specimen.upper
- Scale
- Nom
- Method
- Organism specific culture
Additional Names
- Short Name
- Yeast Upper resp Cult
- Display Name
- Yeast identified Org specific cx Nom (Upper resp)
- Consumer Name Alpha Get Info
- Yeast culture, Upper respiratory
Basic Attributes
- Class
- MICRO
- Type
- Laboratory
- First Released
- Version 2.66
- Last Updated
- Version 2.77
- Change Reason
- Release 2.77: SYSTEM: Updated to standardize the representation of "Respiratory system specimen" in the System subhierarchy across LOINC;
- Order vs. Observation
- Both
Language Variants Get Info
Tag | Language | Translation |
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es-MX | Spanish (Mexico) | Levadura identificada: |
fr-FR | French (France) | Levures identifiées: |
nl-NL | Dutch (Netherlands) | gist geïdentificeerd: Synonyms: bovenste ademhalingsstelsel; |
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