reclassify infectious disease terms #3862
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Fungi are eukaryotes but are not considered parasites. |
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Shouldn't synonyms be reciprocal? Not all eukaryotes are parasites. what does "classify all children of infectious disease as a child of bacteria, virus or parasite/eukaryote" mean? |
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@maglott I meant: bacterial infectious disease, viral infectious disease or parasitic infectious disease. Yes, not as children of organisms, that would be odd! :) |
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And going back to the original question... if we think of parasites as describes in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasitism, I don't think all fungal infections are categorized as parasitic. For example, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/68002177 is not treed under parasitic diseases. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/68010272 |
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fungal infections are not considered to be parasitic infections |
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Thanks for your feedback @pnrobinson and @maglott The next open question is:
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Isn't there an ontology term for parasite that we can refer to? |
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is this true for all fungal infections, or just some? currently many sources treat for example Cryptosporidium infection as parasitic e.g
are these formally wrong? If it is the case that some fungal infections are parasitic infections, what is the differentia? Our current def is from NCIT: A successful invasion of a host by an organism that uses the host for food and shelter As @nicolevasilevsky says we need a more precise definition here |
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But it lacks a definition. Someone contact the Term Editor and bug them. oh hold on...
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haha |
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http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IDO_0000403 A symbiont role borne by an organism in virtue of the fact that it derives a growth, survival, or fitness advantage from symbiosis while the other symbiont's growth, survival, or fitness is reduced. Where symbiosis is An interaction between two organisms living together in more or less intimate association Well it's a bit more precise than the current mondo definition but still hard to apply operationally.
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I am not up to date on this but is it certain that cryptosporidium is a fungus? https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/crypto/index.html An important difference is that funguses can live without a human host and are opportunistic infectious agents. The word parasite can be interpreted as a role or as a characteristic of phyla, e.g. the phylum of cryptosporidium, The Apicomplexa (also called Apicomplexia) are a large phylum of parasitic alveolates. I think for mondo we do not want to include the "role" of being a parasite, but rather want to use the biological definitions. |
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cryptosporidium was a mistake, it's a parasitic disease. :) |
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Per the Mondo developers call on 06/11, we propose to treat parasite as a synonym of eukaryote
**Question: ** can anyone think of a eukaryotic infectious disease that is not a parasitic disease?
**Question: ** Should we put fungal infectious disease under parasitic infectious disease?
cc @cmungall @mellybelly @pnrobinson @sabrinatoro
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