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Eukaryota > Fungi > Yeasts

Preferred term

Yeasts  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Note

  • not for "yeast" ( = YEAST, DRIED; see note there); most "yeast infections" = CANDIDIASIS or specific but if general or unspecified yeast infect, index under MYCOSES

Scope note

  • A general term for single-celled rounded fungi that reproduce by budding. Brewers' and bakers' yeasts are SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; therapeutic dried yeast is YEAST, DRIED.

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D015003

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