toxoplasmosis
parasitic disease
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Summary
toxoplasmosis is a class of disease[1]. toxoplasmosis ranks in the top 0.41% of class of disease entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (12,354 views/month, #8 of 1,968).[2]
Key Facts
- Subclass of: coccidiosis[3], zoonosis[4], congenital abnormality[5], infectious disease[6]
- Commons category: Toxoplasmosis[7]
- Symptoms and signs: lymphadenopathy[8], encephalitis[9], hepatomegaly[10], splenomegaly[11], low-grade fever[12], hepatosplenomegaly[13]
- Has cause: Toxoplasma gondii[14]
- Medical examination: physical examination[15], immunofluorescence microscopy[16], ELISA[17], Sabin–Feldman dye test[18]
- Disease transmission process: fecal–oral route[19], placental transmission[20], organ transplantation[21], blood transfusion[22], haemocontact transmission of pathogen[23]
- Described by source: The Unified Medical Dictionary (Librairie du Liban, 2009)[24]
- Has natural reservoir: Felidae[25]
- ICD-9-CM: 130.9[26], 130[27], 130.7[28]
- NCI Thesaurus ID: C3418[29]
- Health specialty: infectious diseases[30], obstetrics and gynaecology[31]
- Drug or therapy used for treatment: sulfadiazine[32], sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim[33], clindamycin[34], pyrimethamine[35], spiramycin[36], chloroquine[37]
- Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_9965[38], http://identifiers.org/doid/DOID:9965[39]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Medicine[40]
Why It Matters
toxoplasmosis has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[41] toxoplasmosis is known by 46 alternative names across languages and contexts.[42]