infectious disease
disease caused by infection of pathogenic biological agents in a host organism
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Summary
infectious disease is a class of disease[1]. It draws 4,365 Wikipedia views per month (class of disease category, ranking #366 of 1,968).[2]
Key Facts
- Instance of: academic discipline[3]
- Subclass of: infection associated with diseases[4]
- Commons category: Infectious diseases and disorders[5]
- Opposite of: non-communicable disease[6]
- Has cause: pathogen[7]
- Topic's main category: Category:Infectious diseases[8]
- Facet of: health risk[9]
- Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11], Kazakhstan. National encyclopedia[12], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[13], The New Student's Reference Work[14]
- Topic has template: Template:Infobox medical condition[15], Template:Infectious disease[16], Template:Concepts in infectious disease[17]
- Has immediate cause: infection[18]
- Stack Exchange tag: https://biology.stackexchange.com/tags/infectious-diseases[19]
- Has effect: infective psychosis[20]
- Has characteristic: incubation period[21]
- Manifestation of: pathogenesis[22]
- ICD-9-CM: 079.0[23], 136.9[24], 136.8[25]
- Equivalent class: https://schema.org/InfectiousDisease[26], http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/MONDO_0005550[27]
- NCI Thesaurus ID: C26726[28]
- Different from: Infectious Diseases[29], vector-borne disease[30]
- Health specialty: infectious diseases[31]
- History of topic: history of infectious diseases[32]
- Has list: list of infectious diseases[33]
- Studied by: infectious diseases[34], human disease ecology[35]
- Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_0050117[36]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Medicine[37], WikiProject Zika Corpus[38], WikiProject COVID-19[39], Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[40]
Why It Matters
infectious disease has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[41] It is known by 121 alternative names across languages and contexts.[42]