Japanese encephalitis

infection of the brain caused by the Japanese encephalitis virus

Class type of: horse disease, viral infectious disease, infectious disease with epilepsy Q738292

Facts

18 properties

Instance of: class of disease
Subclass of: horse disease, viral infectious disease, infectious disease with epilepsy, flavivirus infectious disease, encephalopathy, infectious disease^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]
Age of onset: any age^[38]
Disease transmission process: mosquito borne transmission^[29]
Drug or therapy used for treatment: furosemide, torasemide, neostigmine, piracetam, D-(-)-mannitol^[33]^[34]^[35]^[36]^[37]
Has cause: Japanese encephalitis virus^[17]
Has phenotype: fever, skeletal muscle atrophy, myalgia, Increased circulating IgM concentration, alteration of consciousness, pathologic nystagmus, Choreoathetosis, hypertonia, tremor, clubfoot, diarrhea, basal ganglia disease, Respiratory distress, cerebral edema, respiratory paralysis, Limited extraocular movements, Bell's palsy, irregular respiration, Stiff neck, syndrome of Inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion, pulmonary edema
Health specialty: infectious diseases^[32]
ICD-9-CM: 062.0^[31]
Maximal incubation period in humans: +15^[39]
Medical examination: lumbar puncture, magnetic resonance imaging, computed tomography, electroencephalography, ELISA, polymerase chain reaction, immunofluorescence microscopy^[18]^[19]^[20]^[21]^[22]^[23]^[24]
Minimal incubation period in humans: +5^[40]
Number of deaths: +17000^[30]
On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Medicine^[41]
P14541: 1nm9cN
P14914: D79139
Possible treatment: supportive care, diuretic, nootropic, antioxidant^[25]^[26]^[27]^[28]
Symptoms and signs: fever, chills, arthralgia, fatigue, headache, vomiting, neck stiffness, mental confusion, coma^[8]^[9]^[10]^[11]^[12]^[13]^[14]^[15]^[16]

🏷️ Also known as

en JE en Japanese Encephalitis en Japanese encephalitis en Japanese B encephalitis ar التهاب الدماغ الياباني cs japonská B encefalitida cs japonská encefalitida cs japonská encefalitida B cs japonská encefalitis da Japansk hjernebetændelse de japanische Enzephalitis el Ιαπωνική εγκεφαλίτιδα es encefalitis japonesa fa التهاب مغز ژاپنی fi Japanin aivotulehdus fr encéphalite japonaise he דלקת המוח היפנית hi जापानी मस्तिष्कशोथ hi जापानिज इनसेफालाइटिस hu japán agyvelőgyulladás

🔖 Identifiers · 37

OpenAlex ID: C2779141303
A Dictionary of Public Health entry ID: 2420
Disease Ontology ID: DOID:10844
DiseasesDB: 7036
EMedicine ID: 233802
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID: 120143
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID: topic/Japanese-encephalitis
Exact match: purl.obolibrary.org, identifiers.org, www.orpha.net
Experimental Factor Ontology ID: 0007332
Freebase ID: /m/051231
GARD rare disease ID: 6797
ICD-10-CM: A83.0

Show all 37 identifiers +25

ICD-11 ID (Foundation): 961032639
ICD-11 ID (MMS): 1C85
JSTOR topic ID (archived): japanese-encephalitis
KEGG ID: H01533
MeSH descriptor ID: D004672
MeSH tree code: C10.228.140.430.520.750.300.400, C10.228.228.245.340.300.400, C10.228.228.399.750.300.400, C01.207.245.340.300.400, C01.207.399.750.300.400, C01.925.081.343.345, C01.925.182.525.300.250, C01.925.782.310.345, C01.925.782.350.250.300, C10.586.250.520.750.300.400, C01.920.313.156.345, C01.920.852.500.345
Medicin.dk medical condition ID: 218
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued): 2779141303
Mondo ID: MONDO_0019209
NHS Health A to Z ID: japanese-encephalitis
Namuwiki ID: 일본뇌염
OmegaWiki Defined Meaning: 1273059
Orphanet ID: 79139
Quora topic ID: Japanese-Encephalitis
SNOMED CT ID: 52947006
ScienceDirect topic ID: agricultural-and-biological-sciences/japanese-encephalitis, immunology-and-microbiology/japanese-encephalitis, medicine-and-dentistry/japanese-encephalitis, nursing-and-health-professions/japanese-encephalitis, pharmacology-toxicology-and-pharmaceutical-science/japanese-encephalitis, veterinary-science-and-veterinary-medicine/japanese-encephalitis
Store medisinske leksikon ID: japansk_encefalitt
Topic's main category: Category:Japanese encephalitis
UMLS CUI: C0014057
UNII: P07E7XWU9D
Wellcome Collection concept ID: uzzd8nqs
WikiKids ID: Japanse_encefalitis
WikiProjectMed ID: Japanese encephalitis
WikiSkripta article ID: 16824
YSO ID: 27824

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Symptoms and signs 9

headache, fever, vomiting, coma, fatigue, mental confusion, arthralgia, chills +1 more

Medical examination 7

magnetic resonance imaging, computed tomography, polymerase chain reaction, electroencephalography, lumbar puncture, ELISA, immunofluorescence microscopy

Drug or therapy used for treatment 5

furosemide, D-(-)-mannitol, piracetam, neostigmine, torasemide

Possible treatment 3

antioxidant, diuretic, nootropic

Subclass of 2

viral infectious disease, encephalopathy

Has cause 1

Japanese encephalitis virus

Health specialty 1

infectious diseases

Instance of 1

infectious disease

On focus list of Wikimedia project 1

WikiProject Medicine

← FactGrid item ID 1

Shcherbyntsi

← Has effect 1

Japanese encephalitis virus

← Vaccine for 1

Japanese encephalitis vaccine

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Summary

Japanese encephalitis is a class of disease^[1].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

[2] ↑ Japanese encephalitis — subclass of (P279): horse disease. wikidata.org.
[3] ↑ Japanese encephalitis — subclass of (P279): viral infectious disease. Disease Ontology. Retrieved 2020-11-30. wikidata.org.
[4] ↑ Japanese encephalitis — subclass of (P279): infectious disease with epilepsy. Monarch Disease Ontology release 2018-06-29. Retrieved 2018-07-28. wikidata.org.
[5] ↑ Japanese encephalitis — subclass of (P279): flavivirus infectious disease. wikidata.org.
[6] ↑ Japanese encephalitis — subclass of (P279): encephalopathy. Disease Ontology. Retrieved 2020-11-30. wikidata.org.
[7] ↑ Japanese encephalitis — subclass of (P279): infectious disease. Monarch Disease Ontology release 2018-06-29. Retrieved 2018-07-28. wikidata.org.
[8] ↑ Japanese encephalitis — symptoms and signs (P780): fever. WikiSkripta. wikidata.org.
[9] ↑ Japanese encephalitis — symptoms and signs (P780): chills. WikiSkripta. wikidata.org.
[10] ↑ Japanese encephalitis — symptoms and signs (P780): arthralgia. WikiSkripta. wikidata.org.
[11] ↑ Japanese encephalitis — symptoms and signs (P780): fatigue. WikiSkripta. wikidata.org.
[12] ↑ Japanese encephalitis — symptoms and signs (P780): headache. WikiSkripta. wikidata.org.
[13] ↑ Japanese encephalitis — symptoms and signs (P780): vomiting. cdc.gov. Retrieved 2017-07-26. cdc.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[14] ↑ Japanese encephalitis — symptoms and signs (P780): neck stiffness. WikiSkripta. wikidata.org.
[15] ↑ Japanese encephalitis — symptoms and signs (P780): mental confusion. Disease Ontology. Retrieved 2020-11-30. wikidata.org.
[16] ↑ Japanese encephalitis — symptoms and signs (P780): coma. Disease Ontology. Retrieved 2020-11-30. wikidata.org.
[17] ↑ Japanese encephalitis — has cause (P828): Japanese encephalitis virus. wikidata.org.
[18] ↑ Japanese encephalitis — medical examination (P923): lumbar puncture. wikidata.org.
[19] ↑ Japanese encephalitis — medical examination (P923): magnetic resonance imaging. wikidata.org.
[20] ↑ Japanese encephalitis — medical examination (P923): computed tomography. wikidata.org.
[21] ↑ Japanese encephalitis — medical examination (P923): electroencephalography. wikidata.org.
[22] ↑ Japanese encephalitis — medical examination (P923): ELISA. wikidata.org.
[23] ↑ Japanese encephalitis — medical examination (P923): polymerase chain reaction. wikidata.org.
[24] ↑ Japanese encephalitis — medical examination (P923): immunofluorescence microscopy. wikidata.org.
[25] ↑ Japanese encephalitis — possible treatment (P924): supportive care. wikidata.org.
[26] ↑ Japanese encephalitis — possible treatment (P924): diuretic. wikidata.org.
[27] ↑ Japanese encephalitis — possible treatment (P924): nootropic. wikidata.org.
[28] ↑ Japanese encephalitis — possible treatment (P924): antioxidant. wikidata.org.
[29] ↑ Japanese encephalitis — disease transmission process (P1060): mosquito borne transmission. WikiSkripta. wikidata.org.
[30] ↑ Japanese encephalitis — number of deaths (P1120): 17,000. who.int. who.int. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[31] ↑ Japanese encephalitis — ICD-9-CM (P1692): 062.0. Monarch Disease Ontology release 2018-06-29. Retrieved 2018-07-28. wikidata.org.
[32] ↑ Japanese encephalitis — health specialty (P1995): infectious diseases. wikidata.org.
[33] ↑ Japanese encephalitis — drug or therapy used for treatment (P2176): furosemide. wikidata.org.
[34] ↑ Japanese encephalitis — drug or therapy used for treatment (P2176): torasemide. wikidata.org.
[35] ↑ Japanese encephalitis — drug or therapy used for treatment (P2176): neostigmine. wikidata.org.
[36] ↑ Japanese encephalitis — drug or therapy used for treatment (P2176): piracetam. wikidata.org.
[37] ↑ Japanese encephalitis — drug or therapy used for treatment (P2176): D-(-)-mannitol. wikidata.org.
[38] ↑ Japanese encephalitis — age of onset (P2841): any age. Retrieved 2026-10-23. wikidata.org.
[39] ↑ Japanese encephalitis — maximal incubation period in humans (P3487): 15 day. Incubation Periods of Mosquito-Borne Viral Infections: A Systematic Review. wikidata.org.
[40] ↑ Japanese encephalitis — minimal incubation period in humans (P3488): 5 day. Incubation Periods of Mosquito-Borne Viral Infections: A Systematic Review. wikidata.org.
[41] ↑ Japanese encephalitis — on focus list of Wikimedia project (P5008): WikiProject Medicine. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

[1] ↑ Japanese encephalitis is an instance of class of disease (Q112193867) [P31, primary]. Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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10d ago · ACorrêa (WMB) · 2026-10-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Sitelink count → 46

Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'arz', 'as', 'az', 'bg', 'bn', 'ca', 'commons', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'el', '

Age of onset → any age

Has phenotype → fever, skeletal muscle atrophy, myalgia +18

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P14541 → 1nm9cN

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Subclass of → horse disease, viral infectious disease, infectious disease with epilepsy +3

Instance of → class of disease

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23w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Disease transmission process → mosquito borne transmission

Has cause → Japanese encephalitis virus

On focus list of Wikimedia project → WikiProject Medicine

Instance of → —

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