infectious disease

disease caused by infection of pathogenic biological agents in a host organism
MedicalCondition class_of_disease Q18123741
Press Enter · cited answer in seconds

infectious disease

Summary

infectious disease is a class of disease[1]. It draws 321 Wikipedia views per month (class_of_disease category, ranking #366 of 1,968).[2]

Key Facts

  • infectious disease's instance of is recorded as class of disease[3].
  • infectious disease's instance of is recorded as academic discipline[4].
  • infectious disease is a type of infection associated with diseases[5].
  • infectious disease's Commons category is recorded as Infectious diseases and disorders[6].
  • infectious disease is the opposite of non-communicable disease[7].
  • infectious disease's has cause is recorded as pathogen[8].
  • infectious disease's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Infectious diseases[9].
  • infectious disease's facet of is recorded as health risk[10].
  • infectious disease's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11].
  • infectious disease's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12].
  • infectious disease's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13].
  • infectious disease's described by source is recorded as Kazakhstan. National encyclopedia[14].
  • infectious disease's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[15].
  • infectious disease's described by source is recorded as The New Student's Reference Work[16].
  • infectious disease's topic has template is recorded as Template:Infobox medical condition[17].
  • infectious disease's topic has template is recorded as Template:Infectious disease[18].
  • infectious disease's topic has template is recorded as Template:Concepts in infectious disease[19].
  • infectious disease's has immediate cause is recorded as infection[20].
  • infectious disease's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://biology.stackexchange.com/tags/infectious-diseases[21].
  • infectious disease's has effect is recorded as infective psychosis[22].
  • infectious disease's has characteristic is recorded as incubation period[23].
  • infectious disease's manifestation of is recorded as pathogenesis[24].
  • infectious disease's ICD-9-CM is recorded as 079.0[25].
  • infectious disease's ICD-9-CM is recorded as 136.9[26].
  • infectious disease's ICD-9-CM is recorded as 136.8[27].

Why It Matters

infectious disease draws 321 Wikipedia views per month (class_of_disease category, ranking #366 of 1,968).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 121 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

📑 Cite this page

Use these citations when quoting this entity in research, articles, AI prompts, or wherever provenance matters. We aggregate Wikidata + Wikipedia + authoritative open-data sources; the stitched, scored, cross-referenced view is what 4ort.xyz contributes.

APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). infectious disease. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/infectious-disease
MLA “infectious disease.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/infectious-disease.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_infectious-disease_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{infectious disease}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/infectious-disease}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): infectious disease — https://4ort.xyz/entity/infectious-disease (retrieved 2026-05-03)

Canonical URL: https://4ort.xyz/entity/infectious-disease · Last refreshed:

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. 18d ago · Trivialist · 2026-09-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Nalt id 15154
    The guardian topic id science/infectiousdiseases
    Jstor topic id (archived) infectious-diseases
    Openalex id C3018443061
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P3106]]: science/infectiousdiseases"
  2. 8w ago · OBender12 · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Jewish encyclopedia id 12066
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P8590]]: 12066, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/167483232|PESTILENCE (#167483232)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/6351|Jewish Encyclopedia]] #"
  3. 10w ago · Chalmd · 2026-07-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Bbc things id 9bfc1138-b15e-4f2b-abc5-3a5f234ab109
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P1617]]: 9bfc1138-b15e-4f2b-abc5-3a5f234ab109"
  4. 10w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of class of disease, academic discipline
    P14541 4YPkwH
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  5. 11w ago · JhealdBatch bot · 2026-07-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of infection associated with diseases
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/39863|batch #39863]]: rm redundant P279"
  6. 11w ago · Jheald · 2026-07-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of class of disease, academic discipline
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ [[Property:P31]]: [[Q140412900]]"
  7. 14w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id h0000966-infekcni-nemoci
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: h0000966-infekcni-nemoci, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259662|batch #259662]]"
  8. 18w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has immediate cause infection
    History of topic history of infectious diseases
    Has cause pathogen
    Topic has template Template:Infobox medical condition, Template:Infectious disease, Template:Concepts in infectious disease
    + 24 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|17 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 1804, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
Live feed via Wikidata EventStreams. New edits appear within minutes of being made on Wikidata.