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bacterial vaginosis

vaginal infection caused by excessive growth of bacteria
MedicalCondition class_of_disease Q804521
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Summary

bacterial vaginosis is a class of disease[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of class of disease entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,813 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: vaginitis[3], bacterial infectious disease[4], infectious disease[5]
  • Commons category: Bacterial vaginosis[6]
  • Has cause: Gardnerella vaginalis[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Bacterial vaginosis[8]
  • Facet of: women's health[9]
  • NCI Thesaurus ID: C116973[10]
  • Health specialty: gynaecology[11]
  • Drug or therapy used for treatment: acetic acid[12], clindamycin[13], metronidazole[14]
  • Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_3385[15], http://identifiers.org/doid/DOID:3385[16]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Medicine[17], gender gap on Dutch Wikipedia[18]

Why It Matters

bacterial vaginosis has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] It is known by 54 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

Related Entities

disease gynaecology infectious disease women's health

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Monarch Disease Ontology release 2018-06-29. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Disease Ontology. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . NDF-RT. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . NDF-RT. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . NDF-RT. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Identifiers.org. registry.identifiers.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] ↑ . 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. 4h ago · VGMaintenanceBot bot · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 57
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'bg', 'bn', 'bs', 'ca', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en', '
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetqualifier-add:1| */ Mediawiki page id: 2656, Add qualifier to WikiProjectMed ID `Bacterial vaginosis`"
  2. 14w ago · JhealdBatch bot · 2026-07-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → vaginitis, bacterial 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"
  3. 14w ago · JhealdBatch bot · 2026-07-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → vaginitis, bacterial infectious disease, infectious disease
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/39732|batch #39732]]: rm redundant subclass"
  4. 22w ago · Mowsenter · 2026-05-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Facet of → women's health
    Has cause → Gardnerella vaginalis
    Aliases → —
    Subclass of → vaginitis, bacterial infectious disease, infectious disease
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetreference-add:2| */ Mesh tree code: C01.150.252.954"
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