meningococcal disease

human disease

Class type of: gram-negative bacterial infection, Neisseriaceae infectious disease, infectious disease Q890785

Facts

14 properties

Instance of: class of disease
Subclass of: gram-negative bacterial infection, Neisseriaceae infectious disease, infectious disease^[2]^[3]^[4]
Disease transmission process: airborne transmission^[17]
Drug or therapy used for treatment: ampicillin, cefotaxime, ceftriaxone, corticosteroid^[23]^[24]^[25]^[26]
Has cause: Neisseria meningitidis^[12]
Has natural reservoir: human^[18]
Health specialty: infectious diseases^[22]
ICD-9-CM: 36.9 (36–36.9, n=3)^[19]^[20]^[21]
Maximal incubation period in humans: +10^[27]
Medical examination: physical examination, microbiological culture, polymerase chain reaction^[13]^[14]^[15]
Minimal incubation period in humans: +1^[28]
On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Medicine^[29]
Possible treatment: antibiotic^[16]
Symptoms and signs: fever, sore throat, headache, rash, septic shock, meningitis, meningism signs^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8]^[9]^[10]^[11]

🏷️ Also known as

en Neisseria meningitidis infection en Meningococcal Infections en meningococcal infectious disease en Meningococcal septicaemia en infections, Neisseria meningitidis en meningococcal disease en Meningococcal Infection ar مرض المكورات السحائية ar مرض المكورات السحائي de Meningokokken-Meningitis es meningitis cerebro espinal epidémica es meningitis cerebro-espinal epidémica es meningitis cerebroespinal epidémica es meningococcemia es púrpura fulminante fa مننژیت fr infection à méningocoque fr méningococcie he מנינגוקוק id Meningokokus

🔖 Identifiers · 34

Library of Congress authority ID: sh85083564
OpenAlex ID: C2908838209, C2776645655, C2910632749
Image (Wikimedia Commons): Charlotte Cleverley-Bisman Meningicoccal Disease.jpg ↗
ABC News topic ID: meningococcal-disease
BNCF Thesaurus ID: 57977
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID: 12473602n
Disease Ontology ID: DOID:2515
DiseasesDB: 8847
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID: science/meningococcal-meningitis
Exact match: purl.obolibrary.org
Experimental Factor Ontology ID: 0004249
Freebase ID: /m/0b459g

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GARD rare disease ID: 9547, 7169
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017): 2204481
ICD-10 ID: A39, A39.2
ICD-10-CM: A39
ICD-11 ID (Foundation): 1664016479
ICD-11 ID (MMS): 1C1C
ICD-9 ID: 36 (36–36.9, n=3)
JSTOR topic ID (archived): meningococcal-meningitis, meningococcal-infections
KEGG ID: H00314
MeSH descriptor ID: D008589
MeSH tree code: C01.150.252.400.625.549
Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities ID: 10027274
MedlinePlus ID: 000608, 001349
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued): 2776645655, 2910153940
Mondo ID: MONDO_0005373
National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987007562998605171
PatientsLikeMe condition ID: meningococcal-infection
SNOMED CT ID: 23511006
Store medisinske leksikon ID: meningokokkinfeksjon
UMLS CUI: C0025303
WikiProjectMed ID: Meningococcal disease
Yale LUX ID: concept/884c7587-395f-4c99-93dc-43f665cce90f

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🔗 Connections

Symptoms and signs 6

headache, fever, meningitis, rash, septic shock, sore throat

Drug or therapy used for treatment 4

corticosteroid, ampicillin, ceftriaxone, cefotaxime

Medical examination 3

polymerase chain reaction, physical examination, microbiological culture

Disease transmission process 1

airborne transmission

Has cause 1

Neisseria meningitidis

Has natural reservoir 1

human

Health specialty 1

infectious diseases

Instance of 1

infectious disease

On focus list of Wikimedia project 1

WikiProject Medicine

Possible treatment 1

antibiotic

← FactGrid item ID 1

Boris Rajewsky

← Vaccine for 1

meningococcal vaccine

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Summary

meningococcal disease is a class of disease^[1].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

[2] ↑ meningococcal disease — subclass of (P279): gram-negative bacterial infection. wikidata.org.
[3] ↑ meningococcal disease — subclass of (P279): Neisseriaceae infectious disease. wikidata.org.
[4] ↑ meningococcal disease — subclass of (P279): infectious disease. Monarch Disease Ontology release 2018-06-29. Retrieved 2018-07-28. wikidata.org.
[5] ↑ meningococcal disease — symptoms and signs (P780): fever. wikidata.org.
[6] ↑ meningococcal disease — symptoms and signs (P780): sore throat. wikidata.org.
[7] ↑ meningococcal disease — symptoms and signs (P780): headache. wikidata.org.
[8] ↑ meningococcal disease — symptoms and signs (P780): rash. wikidata.org.
[9] ↑ meningococcal disease — symptoms and signs (P780): septic shock. wikidata.org.
[10] ↑ meningococcal disease — symptoms and signs (P780): meningitis. wikidata.org.
[11] ↑ meningococcal disease — symptoms and signs (P780): meningism signs. wikidata.org.
[12] ↑ meningococcal disease — has cause (P828): Neisseria meningitidis. wikidata.org.
[13] ↑ meningococcal disease — medical examination (P923): physical examination. wikidata.org.
[14] ↑ meningococcal disease — medical examination (P923): microbiological culture. wikidata.org.
[15] ↑ meningococcal disease — medical examination (P923): polymerase chain reaction. wikidata.org.
[16] ↑ meningococcal disease — possible treatment (P924): antibiotic. wikidata.org.
[17] ↑ meningococcal disease — disease transmission process (P1060): airborne transmission. wikidata.org.
[18] ↑ meningococcal disease — has natural reservoir (P1605): human. wikidata.org.
[19] ↑ meningococcal disease — ICD-9-CM (P1692): 036.89. Monarch Disease Ontology release 2018-06-29. Retrieved 2018-07-28. wikidata.org.
[20] ↑ meningococcal disease — ICD-9-CM (P1692): 036. Monarch Disease Ontology release 2018-06-29. Retrieved 2018-07-28. wikidata.org.
[21] ↑ meningococcal disease — ICD-9-CM (P1692): 036.9. Monarch Disease Ontology release 2018-06-29. Retrieved 2018-07-28. wikidata.org.
[22] ↑ meningococcal disease — health specialty (P1995): infectious diseases. wikidata.org.
[23] ↑ meningococcal disease — drug or therapy used for treatment (P2176): ampicillin. wikidata.org.
[24] ↑ meningococcal disease — drug or therapy used for treatment (P2176): cefotaxime. wikidata.org.
[25] ↑ meningococcal disease — drug or therapy used for treatment (P2176): ceftriaxone. wikidata.org.
[26] ↑ meningococcal disease — drug or therapy used for treatment (P2176): corticosteroid. wikidata.org.
[27] ↑ meningococcal disease — maximal incubation period in humans (P3487): 10 day. wikidata.org.
[28] ↑ meningococcal disease — minimal incubation period in humans (P3488): 1 day. wikidata.org.
[29] ↑ meningococcal disease — on focus list of Wikimedia project (P5008): WikiProject Medicine. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

[1] ↑ meningococcal disease is an instance of class of disease (Q112193867) [P31, primary]. Wikidata. 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.

18w ago · JhealdBatch bot · 2026-07-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Subclass of → gram-negative bacterial infection, Neisseriaceae infectious disease, infectious disease

Instance of → class of disease

"/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/39943|batch #39943]]: deprecate redundant disease superclasses"
18w ago · JhealdBatch bot · 2026-07-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Instance of → class of disease

"/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/39866|batch #39866]]: + P31 = "type of disease""
23w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Disease transmission process → airborne transmission

Health specialty → infectious diseases

Has natural reservoir → human

Symptoms and signs → fever, sore throat, headache +4

+ 12 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)

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