{ "model": { "rank": 8124, "code": "thing-infection", "model_id": "vr.tr.infection", "name": "infection", "purpose": "the pathological state resulting from the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Cross-cutting context", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "XCT", "domain": "XCT.STA", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/infection/", "tier": 2, "score": 52, "payload": { "layer": "wordnet", "aliases": [ "blackwater fever", "jungle fever", "malaria", "progressive vaccinia", "vaccinia gangrenosa", "amebiasis", "amoebiasis", "amebiosis", "amoebiosis", "amebic dysentery", "amoebic dysentery", "felon", "whitlow", "focal infection", "giardiasis", "hemorrhagic fever", "haemorrhagic fever", "viral hemorrhagic fever", "viral haemorrhagic fever", "VHF", "herpangia", "leishmaniasis", "leishmaniosis", "kala azar", "nonsocial infection", "cross infection", "opportunistic infection", "paronychia", "protozoal 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"wave": 3, "engine": "claude" }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-INFECTION", "registryId": "vr.tr.infection", "name": "infection", "version": "0.2.0-wave.3", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "XCT.STA" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/infection/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.infection", "name": "infection", "purpose": "Let an agent explain infection as a pathological state, describe kinds by pathogen and site, relay prevention, diagnosis and treatment principles from public health sources, and route personal symptoms to clinicians and emergencies to urgent care.", "definition": "The pathological state resulting from the invasion and multiplication of pathogenic microorganisms such as bacteria, viruses, fungi, protozoa and parasites in the body, ranging from localised to systemic disease, with examples including malaria and its severe form blackwater fever, amoebiasis, and complications of vaccination such as progressive vaccinia; infections are transmitted by contact, air, water, food and vectors, are diagnosed by clinical and laboratory methods and are treated with antimicrobials and supportive care.", "what_it_is_for": "Not applicable; a pathological state.", "affordances": [ "explain the concept and kinds", "relay transmission and prevention", "relay diagnosis and treatment principles", "route personal questions" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Pathogen multiplication", "Host response", "Transmissibility", "Antimicrobial treatment" ], "appearance": "Not a visible object; signs such as fever, inflammation and specific symptoms.", "visual_identification": [ "Disease state from pathogen invasion", "Bacterial, viral, fungal, protozoal and parasitic, local and systemic", "Colonisation without disease is not infection; inflammation may occur without infection" ], "physical_properties": [ { "quantity": "deaths from infectious diseases", "typical_range": "about 13 million", "unit": "per year worldwide", "note": "estimates including sepsis" } ], "families_and_kinds": [ "bacterial infections", "viral infections", "fungal infections", "protozoal infections such as malaria and amoebiasis", "parasitic worm infections", "localised and systemic infections including sepsis", "healthcare-associated infections", "vaccine complications such as progressive vaccinia as a historical category" ], "related_models": [ { "relation": "is a kind of", "target": "state", "why": "in registry terms" }, { "relation": "is caused by", "target": "pathogen", "why": "the invading organism" }, { "relation": "is treated with", "target": "antimicrobial", "why": "such as antibiotics" }, { "relation": "is prevented by", "target": "vaccination", "why": "and hygiene" } ], "identifiers": [ { "scheme": "ICD-11", "value_or_pattern": "chapter 1", "note": "infectious and parasitic diseases" }, { "scheme": "MeSH", "value_or_pattern": "D007239", "note": "infections" } ], "standards_and_regulation": [ "WHO and 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"care-finding", "name": "Care", "description": "Care.", "questions": [ { "text": "How are infections diagnosed and treated, in general terms?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Is the user asking about their own symptoms, which need a clinician?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "understand", "name": "Understand", "description": "The state.", "rationale": "Clinical.", "layers": [ { "id": "definition", "name": "Definition", "description": "Definition and kinds.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-finding", "name": "Definition", "description": "Definition.", "questions": [ { "text": "What is infection, and how do kinds differ by pathogen and site?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "Is the question about infection, colonisation or non-infectious inflammation?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "process", "name": "Process", "description": "Infection process.", "findings": [ { "id": "process-finding", "name": "Process", "description": "Process.", "questions": [ { "text": "How do pathogens enter, multiply and cause disease, and how does the immune system respond?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "Which entry fits the specific pathogen?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "prevent", "name": "Prevent", "description": "Prevention and control.", "rationale": "Public health.", "layers": [ { "id": "transmission", "name": "Transmission", "description": "Transmission and prevention.", "findings": [ { "id": "transmission-finding", "name": "Transmission", "description": "Transmission.", "questions": [ { "text": "How are infections transmitted, and how are they prevented by hygiene, vaccination and vector control?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which references are standard?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "resistance", "name": "Resistance", "description": "Antimicrobial resistance.", "findings": [ { "id": "resistance-finding", "name": "Resistance", "description": "Resistance.", "questions": [ { "text": "What is antimicrobial resistance, and what do reports say about its scale?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which sources are cited?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "context", "name": "Context", "description": "Epidemiology and history.", "rationale": "Context.", "layers": [ { "id": "epidemiology", "name": "Epidemiology", "description": "Burden.", "findings": [ { "id": "epidemiology-finding", "name": "Epidemiology", "description": "Epidemiology.", "questions": [ { "text": "What is the global burden of infections, with sources?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "text": "Which entry fits global health?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "history", "name": "History", "description": "History.", "findings": [ { "id": "history-finding", "name": "History", "description": "History.", "questions": [ { "text": "How did germ theory and antimicrobials transform the understanding of infection?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which entry fits the history of microbiology?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Should infectious disease be the primary linked entry?", "How should public health guidance be linked?", "The registry entry has merged aliases naming specific diseases and a historical vaccine complication; should they be split off?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 4, "layers": 8, "findings": 8, "questions": 16 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "disease or condition", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched.", "facetsInferred": false, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a infection, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "the pathological state resulting from the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms", "characteristics": { "substance": "abstract", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: blackwater fever, jungle fever, malaria, progressive vaccinia, vaccinia gangrenosa, amebiasis, amoebiasis, amebiosis, amoebiosis, amebic dysentery, amoebic dysentery, felon.", "52 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it." ], "openQuestionsForResearch": [ "Which of the bundles below does a real task actually need, and which are ceremony?", "What does this thing have that the facets do not capture at all?", "Which neighbouring kind is most often confused with a infection, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "an abstraction with no physical instance", "physicalCharacter": [ "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Recognised by criteria applied to signs and findings, not by appearance. Two conditions can look identical and be distinguished only by test." ], "relatedModels": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "blackwater fever", "jungle fever", "malaria", "progressive vaccinia", "vaccinia gangrenosa", "amebiasis", "amoebiasis", "amebiosis", "amoebiosis", "amebic dysentery", "amoebic dysentery", "felon" ] } ], "standing": "52 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one infection from another, and a infection from things that resemble it.", "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.", "layers": [ { "id": "naming-and-identifiers", "name": "Names and identifiers", "description": "The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.", "findings": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases", "name": "Preferred name, aliases and local names", "description": "Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.", "questions": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the name of a infection, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a infection, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a infection is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a infection, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a infection, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a infection is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a infection sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a infection, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a infection, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a infection is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a infection from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a infection, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a infection, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a infection is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a infection passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a infection between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a infection, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a infection, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a infection is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a infection, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a infection is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a infection, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a infection, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a infection is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "diagnosis-and-criteria", "name": "Diagnosis, criteria and coding", "description": "What makes a case of infection a case, and under which revision.", "rationale": "Criteria change between revisions, so a diagnosis without its coding revision cannot be compared with a later one.", "layers": [ { "id": "criteria", "name": "Diagnostic criteria", "description": "The criteria in force and who issues them.", "findings": [ { "id": "criteria-record", "name": "Criteria, issuer and revision", "description": "What must be true for a diagnosis, according to whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "criteria-record-q01", "text": "What criteria define infection, issued by which body, in which revision?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "criteria-record-q02", "text": "What changed between revisions that would reclassify existing cases?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "coding", "name": "Coding and terminology", "description": "The codes used to record it and their mapping.", "findings": [ { "id": "coding-record", "name": "Codes and mappings", "description": "Which classification codes apply and how they map.", "questions": [ { "id": "coding-record-q01", "text": "Which classification and terminology codes cover infection, and how do they map to each other?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "coding-record-q02", "text": "What is lost when a case is mapped from one scheme to another?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "course-and-population", "name": "Course, population and care", "description": "How infection develops, whom it affects, and what is done about it.", "rationale": "The condition, the diagnosis and the episode of care are three different things, and an agent must not merge them.", "layers": [ { "id": "course", "name": "Course and stages", "description": "Onset, progression, remission and outcome.", "findings": [ { "id": "course-record", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages recorded and what moves a case between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "course-record-q01", "text": "What course does infection typically take, and what marks each stage?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "course-record-q02", "text": "What separates the condition itself from an episode of care for it?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "population", "name": "Affected populations", "description": "Who is affected, how often, and on what evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "epidemiology", "name": "Prevalence and its basis", "description": "Rates with their population, period and source.", "questions": [ { "id": "epidemiology-q01", "text": "What prevalence or incidence is reported for infection, in which population and period?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "epidemiology-q02", "text": "What may an agent not conclude about an individual from a population rate?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a infection came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a infection and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a infection, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a infection, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a infection is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a infection is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a infection, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a infection, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a infection is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 10, "findings": 12, "questions": 32 } } } }