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infectious diseases

medical specialty dealing with the diagnosis, control and treatment of infections
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infectious diseases

Summary

infectious diseases is a medical specialty[1]. It draws 499 Wikipedia views per month (medical_specialty category, ranking #60 of 177).[2]

Key Facts

  • infectious diseases's instance of is recorded as medical specialty[3].
  • infectious diseases's Commons category is recorded as Infectiology[4].
  • infectious diseases's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Infectiology[5].
  • infectious diseases's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as healthcare:speciality=infectious_diseases[6].
  • infectious diseases's is the study of is recorded as infectious disease[7].
  • infectious diseases's practiced by is recorded as infectious disease physician[8].

Why It Matters

infectious diseases draws 499 Wikipedia views per month (medical_specialty category, ranking #60 of 177).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[9] It is known by 35 alternative names across languages and contexts.[10]

Related Entities

Fundação Bahiana de Infectologia Harvey J. Alter infectious disease Robert Gallo

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [9] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [10] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 9d ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → Q21869
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48943|batch #48943]]: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM tags"
  2. 7w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 4NDMgM
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  3. 11w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0218229-infektologie
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: 0218229-infektologie, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259662|batch #259662]]"
  4. 11w ago · Mapenite · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Openalex id → C524204448
    Is the study of → infectious disease
    Latvian national encyclopedia online id → 90058
    Openalex id → —
    + 36 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P1368]]: 000371497"
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