6 Parents
| Identifier | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| DOID:4 | disease | A disease is a disposition (i) to undergo pathological processes that (ii) exists in an organism because of one or more disorders in that organism. |
| DOID:0050117 | disease by infectious agent | A disease that is the consequence of the presence of pathogenic microbial agents, including pathogenic viruses, pathogenic bacteria, fungi, protozoa, multicellular parasites, and aberrant proteins known as prions. |
| DOID:1398 | parasitic infectious disease | A disease by infectious agent that is carried out by a parasite which by definition is a pathogen that simultaneously injures and derives sustenance from its host. |
| DOID:4110 | parasitic ectoparasitic infectious disease | A parasitic infectious disease that is caused by organisms that live primarily on the surface of the host. |
| DOID:4109 | tick infestation | A parasitic ectoparasitic infectious disease that involves parasitic infestation of blood feeding ticks of the families Ixodidae and Argasidae on animals and humans. Ticks are vectors of a number diseases, including Lyme disease, Q fever, Colorado tick fever, tularemia, tick-borne relapsing fever, babesiosis, ehrlichiosis and tick-borne meningoencephalitis, as well as anaplasmosis in cattle and canine jaundice. |
| DOID:11285 | tick paralysis | A tick infestation that is characterized by an acute, ascending, flaccid motor paralysis, which is caused by the introduction of a neurotoxin into humans during attachment and feeding by the females of several tick species such as Dermacentor andersoni, Dermacentor variabilis, Amblyomma americanum, Amblyomma maculatum, Ixodes scapularis, Ixodes pacificus, Ixodes holocyclus, Rhipicephalus sanguineus and Otobius megnini. The symptoms include local inflammation, edema and hemorrhage. |
5 Relations
| Relationship |
Parent Term . Identifier |
Child Term . Identifier |
|---|---|---|
| is_a | DOID:4109 | DOID:11285 |
| is_a | DOID:4 | DOID:11285 |
| is_a | DOID:4110 | DOID:11285 |
| is_a | DOID:0050117 | DOID:11285 |
| is_a | DOID:1398 | DOID:11285 |
