InfectiousDisease

A Schema.org Type

Thing > MedicalEntity > MedicalCondition > InfectiousDisease

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Canonical URL: https://schema.org/InfectiousDisease
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An infectious disease is a clinically evident human disease resulting from the presence of pathogenic microbial agents, like pathogenic viruses, pathogenic bacteria, fungi, protozoa, multicellular parasites, and prions. To be considered an infectious disease, such pathogens are known to be able to cause this disease.

Property	Expected Type	Description
Properties from InfectiousDisease
`infectiousAgent`	Text	The actual infectious agent, such as a specific bacterium.
`infectiousAgentClass`	InfectiousAgentClass	The class of infectious agent (bacteria, prion, etc.) that causes the disease.
`transmissionMethod`	Text	How the disease spreads, either as a route or vector, for example 'direct contact', 'Aedes aegypti', etc.
Properties from MedicalCondition
`associatedAnatomy`	AnatomicalStructure or AnatomicalSystem or SuperficialAnatomy	The anatomy of the underlying organ system or structures associated with this entity.
`differentialDiagnosis`	DDxElement	One of a set of differential diagnoses for the condition. Specifically, a closely-related or competing diagnosis typically considered later in the cognitive process whereby this medical condition is distinguished from others most likely responsible for a similar collection of signs and symptoms to reach the most parsimonious diagnosis or diagnoses in a patient.
`drug`	Drug	Specifying a drug or medicine used in a medication procedure.
`epidemiology`	Text	The characteristics of associated patients, such as age, gender, race etc.
`expectedPrognosis`	Text	The likely outcome in either the short term or long term of the medical condition.
`naturalProgression`	Text	The expected progression of the condition if it is not treated and allowed to progress naturally.
`pathophysiology`	Text	Changes in the normal mechanical, physical, and biochemical functions that are associated with this activity or condition.
`possibleComplication`	Text	A possible unexpected and unfavorable evolution of a medical condition. Complications may include worsening of the signs or symptoms of the disease, extension of the condition to other organ systems, etc.
`possibleTreatment`	MedicalTherapy	A possible treatment to address this condition, sign or symptom.
`primaryPrevention`	MedicalTherapy	A preventative therapy used to prevent an initial occurrence of the medical condition, such as vaccination.
`riskFactor`	MedicalRiskFactor	A modifiable or non-modifiable factor that increases the risk of a patient contracting this condition, e.g. age, coexisting condition.
`secondaryPrevention`	MedicalTherapy	A preventative therapy used to prevent reoccurrence of the medical condition after an initial episode of the condition.
`signOrSymptom`	MedicalSignOrSymptom	A sign or symptom of this condition. Signs are objective or physically observable manifestations of the medical condition while symptoms are the subjective experience of the medical condition.
`stage`	MedicalConditionStage	The stage of the condition, if applicable.
`status`	EventStatusType or MedicalStudyStatus or Text	The status of the study (enumerated).
`typicalTest`	MedicalTest	A medical test typically performed given this condition.
Properties from MedicalEntity
`code`	MedicalCode	A medical code for the entity, taken from a controlled vocabulary or ontology such as ICD-9, DiseasesDB, MeSH, SNOMED-CT, RxNorm, etc.
`funding`	Grant	A Grant that directly or indirectly provide funding or sponsorship for this item. See also ownershipFundingInfo. Inverse property: fundedItem
`guideline`	MedicalGuideline	A medical guideline related to this entity.
`legalStatus`	DrugLegalStatus or MedicalEnumeration or Text	The drug or supplement's legal status, including any controlled substance schedules that apply.
`medicineSystem`	MedicineSystem	The system of medicine that includes this MedicalEntity, for example 'evidence-based', 'homeopathic', 'chiropractic', etc.
`recognizingAuthority`	Organization	If applicable, the organization that officially recognizes this entity as part of its endorsed system of medicine.
`relevantSpecialty`	MedicalSpecialty	If applicable, a medical specialty in which this entity is relevant.
`study`	MedicalStudy	A medical study or trial related to this entity.
Properties from Thing
`additionalType`	Text or URL	An additional type for the item, typically used for adding more specific types from external vocabularies in microdata syntax. This is a relationship between something and a class that the thing is in. Typically the value is a URI-identified RDF class, and in this case corresponds to the use of rdf:type in RDF. Text values can be used sparingly, for cases where useful information can be added without their being an appropriate schema to reference. In the case of text values, the class label should follow the schema.org style guide.
`alternateName`	Text	An alias for the item.
`description`	Text or TextObject	A description of the item.
`disambiguatingDescription`	Text	A sub property of description. A short description of the item used to disambiguate from other, similar items. Information from other properties (in particular, name) may be necessary for the description to be useful for disambiguation.
`identifier`	PropertyValue or Text or URL	The identifier property represents any kind of identifier for any kind of Thing, such as ISBNs, GTIN codes, UUIDs etc. Schema.org provides dedicated properties for representing many of these, either as textual strings or as URL (URI) links. See background notes for more details.
`image`	ImageObject or URL	An image of the item. This can be a URL or a fully described ImageObject.
`mainEntityOfPage`	CreativeWork or URL	Indicates a page (or other CreativeWork) for which this thing is the main entity being described. See background notes for details. Inverse property: mainEntity
`name`	Text	The name of the item.
`potentialAction`	Action	Indicates a potential Action, which describes an idealized action in which this thing would play an 'object' role.
`sameAs`	URL	URL of a reference Web page that unambiguously indicates the item's identity. E.g. the URL of the item's Wikipedia page, Wikidata entry, or official website.
`subjectOf`	CreativeWork or Event	A CreativeWork or Event about this Thing. Inverse property: about
`url`	URL	URL of the item.