loading...| Preferred Name |
infection |
| Definitions |
A part of an extended organism that itself has as part a population of one or more infectious agents and that (1) exists as a result of processes initiated by members of the infectious agent population and is (2) clinically abnormal in virtue of the presence of this infectious agent population, or (3) has a disposition to bring clinical abnormality to immunocompetent organisms of the same Species as the host (the organism corresponding to the extended organism) through transmission of a member or offspring of a member of the infectious agent population. |
| ID |
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IDO_0000586 |
| comment |
The organism corresponding to the extended organism is host to the infectious agents. By this definition, parts of the host can be considered part of the infection. |
| definition |
A part of an extended organism that itself has as part a population of one or more infectious agents and that (1) exists as a result of processes initiated by members of the infectious agent population and is (2) clinically abnormal in virtue of the presence of this infectious agent population, or (3) has a disposition to bring clinical abnormality to immunocompetent organisms of the same Species as the host (the organism corresponding to the extended organism) through transmission of a member or offspring of a member of the infectious agent population. |
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| label |
infection |
| prefixIRI |
IDO:0000586 |
| prefLabel |
infection |
| term editor |
Albert Goldfain Alexander Diehl Lindsay Cowell |
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