tuberculosis

infectious disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis
MedicalCondition class_of_disease Q12204
tuberculosis
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tuberculosis

Summary

tuberculosis is a class of disease[1]. tuberculosis ranks in the top 0.051% of class_of_disease entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (13,871 views/month, #1 of 1,968).[2]

Key Facts

  • tuberculosis's instance of is recorded as class of disease[3].
  • tuberculosis is a type of primary bacterial infectious disease[4].
  • tuberculosis is a type of mycobacterium infectious disease[5].
  • tuberculosis is a type of endemic disease[6].
  • tuberculosis is a type of infectious disease[7].
  • tuberculosis is a type of emerging communicable disease[8].
  • tuberculosis is a type of notifiable disease[9].
  • tuberculosis's Commons category is recorded as Tuberculosis[10].
  • tuberculosis's said to be the same as is recorded as consumption[11].
  • tuberculosis's ICPC 2 ID is recorded as A70[12].
  • tuberculosis's symptoms and signs is recorded as cough[13].
  • tuberculosis's symptoms and signs is recorded as hemoptysis[14].
  • tuberculosis's symptoms and signs is recorded as weight loss[15].
  • tuberculosis's symptoms and signs is recorded as fever[16].
  • tuberculosis's symptoms and signs is recorded as night sweats[17].
  • tuberculosis's symptoms and signs is recorded as chest pain[18].
  • tuberculosis's symptoms and signs is recorded as fatigue[19].
  • tuberculosis's symptoms and signs is recorded as chills[20].
  • tuberculosis's has cause is recorded as Mycobacterium tuberculosis[21].
  • tuberculosis's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Tuberculosis[22].
  • tuberculosis's medical examination is recorded as chest radiograph[23].
  • tuberculosis's medical examination is recorded as chest CT[24].
  • tuberculosis's medical examination is recorded as Mantoux test[25].
  • tuberculosis's medical examination is recorded as lung biopsy[26].
  • tuberculosis's medical examination is recorded as Tuberculosis radiology[27].

Body

Works and Contributions

Things named for tuberculosis include World Tuberculosis Day[28], a world day[29], founded in 1982[30].

Why It Matters

tuberculosis ranks in the top 0.051% of class_of_disease entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (13,871 views/month, #1 of 1,968).[2] tuberculosis has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31] tuberculosis is known by 105 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]

Entities named for tuberculosis include World Tuberculosis Day[28], a world day[29], founded in 1982[30].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . webmd.com. webmd.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . apps.who.int. apps.who.int. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . webmd.com. webmd.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . webmd.com. webmd.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . admin.ch. Retrieved . admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . webmd.com. webmd.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . webmd.com. webmd.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . webmd.com. webmd.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . sil.org. sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . webmd.com. webmd.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . webmd.com. webmd.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . webmd.com. webmd.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. cdc.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . radiologymasterclass.co.uk. radiologymasterclass.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . cdc.gov. cdc.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . nature.com. nature.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . emedicine.medscape.com. emedicine.medscape.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [31] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [32] ↑ . 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 · MatSuBot bot · 2026-10-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 188
    Wikipedia languages → ['abstract', 'af', 'als', 'am', 'an', 'anp', 'ar', 'arz', 'as', 'ast', 'awa', 'a
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||yo, rw */ import labels from sitelinks"
  2. 26d ago · Rose Abrams · 2026-09-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Dagens nyheter topic id → tuberkulos
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P3509]]: tuberkulos, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/59719804|Tuberkulos (#59719804)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/488|DN topic]] #mix'n'mat"
  3. 12w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → b0IxE
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  4. 12w ago · D3rT!m · 2026-07-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Ehlfl id → Tuberkulose
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13079]]: Tuberkulose, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/181637780|Tuberkulose (#181637780)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/3981|Historisches Le"
  5. 13w ago · JhealdBatch bot · 2026-07-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → primary bacterial infectious disease, mycobacterium infectious disease, endemic disease +3
    Instance of → class of disease
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/39742|batch #39742]]: subclass of disease, not instance"
  6. 13w ago · JhealdBatch bot · 2026-07-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → class of disease
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/39731|batch #39731]]: rm redundant P31"
  7. 14w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → tuberculosis
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: tuberculosis, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289972378|tuberculosis (#289972378)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]"
  8. 16w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0004329-tuberkuloza
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: h0004329-tuberkuloza, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259492|batch #259492]]"
  9. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 5135, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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