Skip to main content

Medical Subject Headings

Search from vocabulary

Content language

Concept information

... > Bacteria > Gram-Positive Bacteria > Gram-Positive Rods > Gram-Positive Asporogenous Rods > Gram-Positive Asporogenous Rods, Irregular > Actinobacteria > Bifidobacterium > Bifidobacterium longum

Preferred term

Bifidobacterium longum  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Narrower concepts

Scope note

  • A species of Bifidobacterium that occurs in the human GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT and VAGINA. It inhibits the growth of pathogenic bacteria, may modulate the immune response, and is used as a PROBIOTIC.

History note

  • 2017

In other languages

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D000069978

Download this concept:

RDF/XML TURTLE JSON-LD Created 7/8/16, last modified 8/13/20