schistosomiasis

human disease
MedicalCondition infectious_disease Q221159
schistosomiasis
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Summary

schistosomiasis is an infectious disease[1]. schistosomiasis draws 7,542 Wikipedia views per month (infectious disease category, ranking #42 of 279).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: class of disease[3]
  • Named after: Theodor Bilharz[4]
  • Subclass of: distomatosis[5], parasitic helminthiasis infectious disease[6], neglected tropical disease[7], disease[8]
  • Commons category: Schistosomiasis[9]
  • ICPC 2 ID: D96[10]
  • Symptoms and signs: hematuria[11], diarrhea[12], nausea[13], chills[14]
  • Has cause: Schistosoma[15]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Schistosomiasis[16]
  • Described by source: Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[17]
  • ICD-9-CM: 120.8[18]
  • NCI Thesaurus ID: C35000[19]
  • Health specialty: infectious diseases[20]
  • Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_1395[21], http://identifiers.org/doid/DOID:1395[22]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Medicine[23]

Why It Matters

schistosomiasis has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] schistosomiasis is known by 81 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . WikiSkripta. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . Identifiers.org. registry.identifiers.org. Provenance: 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. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 8TCeR
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  2. 15w ago · JhealdBatch bot · 2026-07-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → distomatosis, parasitic helminthiasis infectious disease, neglected tropical disease +1
    Instance of → infectious disease, class of disease
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/39742|batch #39742]]: subclass of disease, not instance"
  3. 15w ago · JhealdBatch bot · 2026-07-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → distomatosis, parasitic helminthiasis infectious disease, neglected tropical disease +1
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/39732|batch #39732]]: rm redundant subclass"
  4. 20w ago · Gordon2007 · 2026-05-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Named after → —
    Local thumb → —
    Described by source → Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
    Health specialty → infectious diseases
    + 10 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Instance of: parasitic infectious diseases"
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