
Health Dictionary
Reliable, easy-to-read patient information on common medical conditions — written in plain language, free of jargon, and grounded in current evidence. Browse the most frequent diagnoses, understand what they mean for everyday life, and learn which steps and questions help you have a focused conversation with your doctor.
Microbiology template
Introduction
Overview
Overview
- The overview section should include the disease name in the first sentence.
- The goal is to summarize the page in several sentences, and the section can be the same as the causes segment on the overview page.
- Confirm that the overview statement is in a text format and does not contain bullet points.
- Confirm that periods, commas and spaces are appropriately placed.
- Confirm that no text is bolded or italicized randomly in between the text.
- Make sure to check for spelling and grammatical errors thoroughly.
- Confirm that there are no floating periods and comas.
- Confirm that periods and comas are present before the start of references instead of at the end to avoid floating periods and comas.
- Confirm that all the internal links work and there are no black links in between texts.
- Confirm that no links are created to same page.
Template
- First Sentence:
- [Disease name] is caused by an infection with [pathogen].
- OR
- [Pathogen name] infection is caused by [pathogen].
- OR
- [Disease name] may be caused by either [cause1], [cause2], or [cause3].
- Examples:
- Example 1: Legionellosis is caused by an infection with Legionella spp.
- Example 2: Clostridium difficile infection is caused by Clostridium difficile.
- Example 3: Orbital cellulitis may be caused by either Staphylococcus spp., Streptococcus spp., Moraxella spp. or anaerobes.
- Additional Sentences:
- Additional Sentence 1: [Pathogen] belongs to the [pathogen family] family.
- Additional Sentence 2: [Pathogen] is a [feature1], [feature2], [feature3], gram-[positive/negative] [shape].
- Examples:
- Example 1: Influenza belongs to the Orthomyxoviridae family.
- Example 2: C. difficile is a spore-forming, toxin-producing, obligate anaerobic, gram-positive bacillus.
- Example 3: Salmonella spp. is a motile, lactose-fermenting, facultative intracellular gram-negative rod.
- Example 4: Influenza is an enveloped, pleomorphic, segmented virus with a negative-sense, single-stranded RNA genome.
Biology
Biology
Structure
Structure
Tropism
Tropism
Natural Reservoir
Natural Reservoir
Editor-In-Chief:
C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
