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User:NickCT/Wikipedia:Naming conventions (pathogens)

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Summary

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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

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The following are examples of when taxa of a pathogen and resulting disease might be confused.

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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}}

See also

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Wikipedia:Naming conventions (fauna)