impetigo
human disease
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Summary
impetigo is an infectious disease[1]. impetigo ranks in the top 8% of infectious disease entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (17,864 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Instance of: class of disease[3], symptom or sign[4]
- Subclass of: pyoderma[5], skin infection[6], bacterial skin disease[7], disease[8]
- Commons category: Impetigo[9]
- ICPC 2 ID: S84[10]
- Has cause: Staphylococcus aureus[11], Streptococcus pyogenes[12]
- Described by source: The Nuttall Encyclopædia[13], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[14], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 8[15]
- ICD-9-CM: 684[16]
- NCI Thesaurus ID: C99088[17]
- Health specialty: dermatology[18]
- Drug or therapy used for treatment: cefuroxime[19], cefadroxil[20], mupirocin[21]
- Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_8504[22], http://identifiers.org/doid/DOID:8504[23]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Medicine[24]
Why It Matters
impetigo has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25] impetigo is known by 54 alternative names across languages and contexts.[26]