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microbiology

study of microscopic organisms
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Summary

microbiology is a branch of biology[1]. microbiology draws 3,967 Wikipedia views per month (branch of biology category, ranking #11 of 72).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: academic discipline[3]
  • Subclass of: biology[4], exact science[5]
  • Commons category: Microbiology[6]
  • Has part(s): bacteriology[7], virology[8], protistology[9]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Microbiology[10]
  • Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:Microbiology[11]
  • OpenStreetMap tag: healthcare:speciality=microbiology[12]
  • Described by source: Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[14], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[15]
  • Stack Exchange tag: https://biology.stackexchange.com/tags/microbiology[16]
  • Hashtag: microbiology[17]
  • Exact match: http://cat.aii.caas.cn/concept/46816[18], http://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet/concept/5218[19], http://linkeddata.ge.imati.cnr.it:2020/resource/EARTh/80880[20]
  • Practiced by: microbiologist[21]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[22]
  • Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Microbiology[23]

Why It Matters

microbiology has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] microbiology is known by 29 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]

Related Entities

André Lwoff Antonie van Leeuwenhoek August von Wassermann Barry Marshall biology Carl Woese Craig Venter Daniel Nathans David Baltimore Élie Metchnikoff Emmanuelle Charpentier François Jacob Gerhard Domagk Hamilton Smith Hideyo Noguchi Institut für Mikrobiologie der Bundeswehr J. Michael Bishop Johannes Fibiger John Franklin Enders Joshua Lederberg Jules Bordet Julius Richard Petri Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology Louis Pasteur Martinus Wilhelm Beijerinck Masanobu Fukuoka Maurice Hilleman Michael Houghton mycology NFDI4BIOIMAGE

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Directory of Open Access Journals. 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] ↑ . scholar.google.com. Retrieved . scholar.google.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . AGROVOC. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . AGROVOC. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . AGROVOC. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [25] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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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. 7w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Encyclopedia tatarica (tt) online id → razdely/nauka/mikrobiologiya
    P14692 → Q21878
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48943|batch #48943]]: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM tags"
  2. 8w ago · Frhdkazan · 2026-08-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Hrvatska enciklopedija id → mikrobiologija
    Encyclopedia tatarica (ru) online id → razdely/nauka/mikrobiologiya
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Encyclopedia tatarica (ru) online id: razdely/nauka/mikrobiologiya"
  3. 16w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → microbiology
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: microbiology, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289942900|microbiology (#289942900)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]"
  4. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0002388-mikrobiologie
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0002388-mikrobiologie, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259497|batch #259497]]"
  5. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    On focus list of wikimedia project → Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    Subclass of → biology, exact science
    Instance of → branch of biology, academic discipline
    Practiced by → microbiologist
    + 12 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ Yso id: 13507, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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