Talk:List of chronic diseases linked to infectious pathogens

Bare URLs as references

When putting links (urls) in a table in source mode, please name the reference at the same time eg <code><nowiki> <ref name="pmid79"> . </nowiki>User:Hip Named references can then be added elsewhere on the page outside the table using source mode again eg <ref name="pmid79"/> and save. The visual editor mode can then be used to expand these temporary refs, then delete the temporary ref just expanded and this forces the expanded ref to move to the table automatically. See my new section which is ready for visual editor. The date errors can easily be fixed all at once so leaving this until later. User:Kmdenmark ~Njt (talk) 04:38, March 19, 2021 (UTC)

OK. Sounds good to me. Kmdenmark (talk) 17:55, March 19, 2021 (UTC)

Alternative method

The Wikipedia Citer tool can also create the code for a reference, and is probably easier. ~Njt (talk) 01:44, March 21, 2021 (UTC)

Origins of this article -- Hip (talk) 23:35, August 10, 2020 (UTC)

I wrote this entire article myself. Originally I uploaded this article on Wikipedia back in around 2011, where it existed as a Wikipedia article for a few years.

Then at one point in 2015, a Wikipedia editor decided that my article should be deleted, and most other Wikipedia editors agreed. It was deleted because the editors said there was insufficient evidence these pathogens cause their associated disease (even though my article did not claim the pathogens cause the disease, only that they are associated with it).

Just before they deleted my page, I copied it, and moved it to a Google Sites web address here: https://sites.google.com/site/humandiseaseslinkedtopathogens/ where it has been for a few years.

Someone on Wikipedia resurrected my article in 2017, and it is now found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infections_associated_with_diseases

However, this version of the article I created today on MEpedia is more comprehensive and more up-to-date than the older version on Wikipedia.

Hip (talk) 23:35, August 10, 2020 (UTC)

Relevance to ME/CFS -- Hip (talk) 23:38, August 10, 2020 (UTC)

The article is a list of human chronic diseases that have been linked to infectious pathogens. When such a link is made, researchers then start to investigate whether the associated pathogen(s) might actually cause the disease.

Although this topic is not directly connected to ME/CFS, it may be of interest to ME/CFS researchers and patients, because of the controversy about whether ME/CFS is caused by an ongoing infection. The article shows that there are many other diseases which have been linked to pathogens, and the article explains that some researchers believe pathogens are the likely cause of many common chronic diseases. So in that respect, it may be of interest to ME/CFS.

Hip (talk) 23:38, August 10, 2020 (UTC)

Why is AIDS not included in this list of pathogen-associated diseases? -- Hip (talk) 23:54, August 10, 2020 (UTC)

AIDS is not included in this article as it is a disease with a proven pathogenic cause, namely HIV. This article generally only lists diseases when they are associated with an infectious pathogen, but when it has not yet been proven the pathogen actually causes the disease.

Similarly other diseases which have a known infectious cause (eg, hepatitis C, tuberculosis, Q fever) are not included. This article focuses on diseases which currently have an unknown cause and which have been linked to pathogens, but have not (yet) been proven to be caused by those pathogens.

Hip (talk)

Correct capitalisation of viruses, bacteria, fungi and paracites -- Hip (talk) 20:39, July 3, 2024 (UTC)

Please observe the correct capitalisation of bacteria, fungi and parasites: the first word (the genus) is always capitalised, but the second word (the species) is in lower case. For example, the following capitalisation is correct:

Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Helicobacter pylori, Chlamydia pneumoniae, Borrelia burgdorferi, Giardia lamblia, Coxiella burnetii.

When referring to the whole genus, this is capitalised, for example:

Escherichia, Staphylococcus, Streptococcus, Borrelia, etc.

For viruses, these always begin with a lowercase, unless any of the words in the virus name refer to a person or place.

So for example, the following viruses all begin with a lowercase letter:

cytomegalovirus, varicella zoster virus, adenovirus, influenzavirus, coxsackievirus, echovirus, enterovirus, rhinovirus, parvovirus B19, norovirus, coronavirus.

However, these viruses contain person or places, so are capitalised: Epstein-Barr virus, West Nile virus, Ross River virus.

Coxsackievirus B is a complicated case: when written as Coxsackie B virus it is capitalised (it is named after the town of Coxsackie, New York, where the first cases were identified). However, when the Coxsackie bit is subsumed in the virus name, as in coxsackievirus B, then it begins with a lower case.