disease by infectious agent infection http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00006124 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85066076 http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D007239 http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C128320 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infection https://homosaurus.org/terms/infection https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q166231 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. infection NEC infections infectious population pathogen Glossary of HIV/AIDS-Related Terms