User:NickCT/Wikipedia:Naming conventions (pathogens)
Summary
The genus or species of certain pathogens are commonly used to refer to the disease caused by those pathogens. In such cases, convention is to disregard
WP:COMMONNAME
and instead allow the genus or species to refer to the actual pathogen and not the disease. The technical, medically and academically accepted name of the resulting disease should be used to title the diseases' article.
In cases where the academic/medically accepted name of a particular disease coincides with the name of a genus or species, the article for the disease will be made disambiguous. In other words, "(infection)" or "(disease)" will be added to the end of the title.
Examples
The following are examples of when taxa of a pathogen and resulting disease might be confused.
- Salmonella refers to the genus Salmonella, while Salmonellosis refers to the disease
- Shigella refers to the genus Shigella, while Shigellosis refers to the disease
- Cryptosporidium refers to the genus Cryptosporidium, while Cryptosporidiosis refers to the disease
- Streptococcus refers to the genus Streptococcus, while Streptococcal pharyngitis refers to the disease
- Tuberculosis redirects to the species Mycobacterium tuberculosis, while Tuberculosis (disease) refers to the disease
- Chlamydia refers to the genus Chlamydia, while Chlamydia (infection)
Hatlink to the disease
When the name of a genus or species is commonly or often used to refer to a disease, that disease should be hatlinked using the following -
{{About|the bacteria|the disease|Name_of_the_disease}}