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rheumatic fever

post-streptococcal inflammatory disease that can involve the heart, joints, skin, & brain
MedicalCondition class_of_disease Q753904
rheumatic fever
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Summary

rheumatic fever is a class of disease[1]. It ranks in the top 9% of class of disease entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,215 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: bacterial infectious disease[3], disease[4]
  • Commons category: Rheumatic fever[5]
  • ICPC 2 ID: K71[6]
  • ICD-9-CM: 390-392.99[7], 390[8]
  • NCI Thesaurus ID: C34984[9]
  • Health specialty: cardiology[10]
  • Drug or therapy used for treatment: penicillin g benzathine[11], aspirin[12]
  • Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_1586[13], http://identifiers.org/doid/DOID:1586[14], http://www.orpha.net/ORDO/Orphanet_3099[15]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Medicine[16]

Why It Matters

rheumatic fever has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] It is known by 61 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]

Related Entities

Alois Alzheimer Boris Vian cardiology disease Georg Forster Kevin Rudd Matthew C. Perry

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . Monarch Disease Ontology release 2018-06-29. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . NDF-RT. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . NDF-RT. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Identifiers.org. registry.identifiers.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [18] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 14w ago · JhealdBatch bot · 2026-07-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → bacterial infectious disease, disease
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/39732|batch #39732]]: rm redundant subclass"
  2. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    On focus list of wikimedia project → WikiProject Medicine
    Instance of → —
    Subclass of → bacterial infectious disease, disease
    Drug or therapy used for treatment → penicillin g benzathine, aspirin
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|6 */ Yso id: 13909, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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