{ "model": { "rank": 4097, "code": "thing-q6473911", "model_id": "vr.tr.herpes-simplex", "name": "herpes simplex", "purpose": "Let an agent explain herpes simplex infection in general terms, relay prevention, testing and treatment information from health authorities, describe complications that need urgent care, and route personal symptoms and treatment questions to clinicians and sexual health services.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Cross-cutting context", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "XCT", "domain": "XCT.QLT", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q6473911/", "tier": 2, "score": 78, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "Herpes simplex virus hepatitis", "herpes simplex virus keratitis", "Herpes simplex virus otitis externa", "genital herpes", "stromal keratitis", "dendritic keratitis", "neonatal herpes simplex", "eczema herpeticum", "Herpes labialis", "Herpes esophagitis", "herpetic whitlow", "herpes gladiatorum", 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"route personal questions to clinicians" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Lifelong latent infection with reactivation", "Two virus types with overlapping sites", "Very common and often asymptomatic", "Manageable with antivirals" ], "appearance": "Not visible as an object; clusters of small blisters that break into sores, on the lips or genitals, often with tingling before.", "visual_identification": [ "Recurrent blisters and sores in the same area", "HSV-1 mostly oral, HSV-2 mostly genital, with overlap", "Herpes zoster is a different virus; canker sores are not viral" ], "physical_properties": [ { "quantity": "HSV-1 prevalence", "typical_range": "about two thirds", "unit": "of adults worldwide", "note": "WHO estimates" }, { "quantity": "HSV-2 prevalence", "typical_range": "about one in eight", "unit": "adults aged 15-49", "note": "WHO estimates" } ], "families_and_kinds": [ "oral herpes or cold sores", "genital herpes", "herpes keratitis of the eye", "herpetic whitlow and skin infections", "neonatal herpes", "herpes encephalitis, rare and serious" ], "related_models": [ { "relation": "is a kind of", "target": "viral infection", "why": "the category" }, { "relation": "is caused by", "target": "herpes simplex virus", "why": "the pathogen" }, { "relation": "is confused with", "target": "herpes zoster", "why": "a different herpesvirus disease" }, { "relation": "is treated by", "target": "antiviral drug", "why": "such as aciclovir" } ], "identifiers": [ { "scheme": "ICD-10", "value_or_pattern": "B00 and A60", "note": "oral and genital" }, { "scheme": "ICD-11", "value_or_pattern": "1F00", "note": "" } ], "standards_and_regulation": [ "WHO and national guidelines on genital herpes", "Antenatal guidance on neonatal herpes prevention", "Sexual health service standards" ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Neonatal herpes from transmission at birth", "Eye involvement threatening sight", "Encephalitis, rare and serious", "Stigma and agents giving personal medical advice" ], "in_scope": [], "out_of_scope": [], "characteristics": [] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "understand", "name": "Understand", "description": "What herpes simplex is.", "rationale": "General information.", "layers": [ { "id": "cause", "name": "Cause", "description": "Cause and transmission.", "findings": [ { "id": "cause-finding", "name": "Cause", "description": "Cause.", "questions": [ { "text": "What causes herpes simplex, how is it transmitted, and how does latency and reactivation work?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "Is the user describing their own symptoms, which need a clinician or sexual health service?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "recognise", "name": "Recognise", "description": "Signs.", "findings": [ { "id": "recognise-finding", "name": "Recognise", "description": "Recognise.", "questions": [ { "text": "What do episodes look like, and how are they distinguished from other conditions?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "Which entry fits herpes zoster or another condition?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "care", "name": "Care", "description": "Testing and treatment.", "rationale": "Clinical.", "layers": [ { "id": "testing", "name": "Testing", "description": "Testing.", "findings": [ { "id": "testing-finding", "name": "Testing", "description": "Testing.", "questions": [ { "text": "When is testing advised, and how is it accessed, according to guidelines?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which services provide testing locally?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "treatment", "name": "Treatment", "description": "Treatment.", "findings": [ { "id": "treatment-finding", "name": "Treatment", "description": "Treatment.", "questions": [ { "text": "What treatments do guidelines describe, including suppressive therapy?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Is the presentation free of personal treatment advice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "prevent", "name": "Prevent", "description": "Prevention and complications.", "rationale": "Public health.", "layers": [ { "id": "prevention", "name": "Prevention", "description": "Prevention.", "findings": [ { "id": "prevention-finding", "name": "Prevention", "description": "Prevention.", "questions": [ { "text": "What prevention measures do authorities recommend, including in pregnancy?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which entry fits neonatal herpes?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "urgent", "name": "Urgent", "description": "Warning signs.", "findings": [ { "id": "urgent-finding", "name": "Urgent", "description": "Urgent.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which signs, such as eye involvement or neurological symptoms, need urgent care?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Is the user describing an emergency, which must be routed?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "society", "name": "Society", "description": "Stigma and research.", "rationale": "Context.", "layers": [ { "id": "stigma", "name": "Stigma", "description": "Stigma and support.", "findings": [ { "id": "stigma-finding", "name": "Stigma", "description": "Stigma.", "questions": [ { "text": "What do health bodies say about stigma, and what support exists?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Is the presentation non-stigmatising?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "research", "name": "Research", "description": "Research.", "findings": [ { "id": "research-finding", "name": "Research", "description": "Research.", "questions": [ { "text": "What research exists on vaccines and treatments, with attribution?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which references are standard?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Should oral and genital herpes be separate entries?", "How should guidelines be linked by country?", "The registry entry has merged aliases for rare complications; 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": "abstract concept", "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. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "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 herpes simplex, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Let an agent explain herpes simplex infection in general terms, relay prevention, testing and treatment information from health authorities, describe complications that need urgent care, and route personal symptoms and treatment questions to clinicians and sexual health services.", "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: Herpes simplex virus hepatitis, herpes simplex virus keratitis, Herpes simplex virus otitis externa, genital herpes, stromal keratitis, dendritic keratitis, neonatal herpes simplex, eczema herpeticum, Herpes labialis, Herpes esophagitis, herpetic whitlow, herpes gladiatorum.", "15 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 78 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is." ], "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 herpes simplex, 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.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Nothing to see. What is recognised is an instance of it, and which instances count is exactly what is argued about." ], "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": [ "Herpes simplex virus hepatitis", "herpes simplex virus keratitis", "Herpes simplex virus otitis externa", "genital herpes", "stromal keratitis", "dendritic keratitis", "neonatal herpes simplex", "eczema herpeticum", "Herpes labialis", "Herpes esophagitis", "herpetic whitlow", "herpes gladiatorum" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 78 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 15 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 herpes simplex from another, and a herpes simplex 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 herpes simplex, 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 herpes simplex, 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 herpes simplex 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 herpes simplex, 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 herpes simplex, 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 herpes simplex 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 herpes simplex 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 herpes simplex, 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 herpes simplex, 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 herpes simplex 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 herpes simplex from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a herpes simplex, 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 herpes simplex, 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 herpes simplex 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 herpes simplex 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 herpes simplex between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a herpes simplex, 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 herpes simplex, 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 herpes simplex 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 herpes simplex, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a herpes simplex 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 herpes simplex, 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 herpes simplex, 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 herpes simplex is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "definitions-in-contest", "name": "Definitions and who holds them", "description": "What herpes simplex is taken to mean, and by whom.", "rationale": "When a field disagrees about a concept, the disagreement is the content. A model that picks one definition silently destroys the information.", "layers": [ { "id": "competing-definitions", "name": "Competing definitions", "description": "The main readings and the traditions behind them.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-map", "name": "Definitions and their holders", "description": "Each definition with the school or body that holds it.", "questions": [ { "id": "definition-map-q01", "text": "Which definitions of herpes simplex are in use, and which tradition or body holds each?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "definition-map-q02", "text": "What turns on the difference between them in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "operationalisation", "name": "Operationalisation", "description": "How it is measured or applied when it has to be.", "findings": [ { "id": "operational-record", "name": "Measures and proxies", "description": "Instruments and indicators used to stand in for it.", "questions": [ { "id": "operational-record-q01", "text": "How is herpes simplex operationalised or measured in practice, and by what instrument?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "operational-record-q02", "text": "What does that operationalisation leave out, and when does that matter?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "instances-and-use", "name": "Instances, use and consequence", "description": "What counts as an instance of herpes simplex and what follows from calling something that.", "rationale": "Applying a concept is an act with consequences, so a model must say what the label licenses and what it does not.", "layers": [ { "id": "instances", "name": "What counts as an instance", "description": "Clear cases, borderline cases and non-cases.", "findings": [ { "id": "instance-tests", "name": "Tests for an instance", "description": "What would settle whether something falls under it.", "questions": [ { "id": "instance-tests-q01", "text": "What would settle whether something is an instance of herpes simplex?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "instance-tests-q02", "text": "Which borderline cases are argued about, and on what grounds?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "consequence", "name": "Consequence of application", "description": "Rights, duties or decisions that follow from the label.", "findings": [ { "id": "consequence-record", "name": "What the label licenses", "description": "What an agent may do once something is classified this way.", "questions": [ { "id": "consequence-record-q01", "text": "What follows practically once something is treated as herpes simplex?", "kind": "action" }, { "id": "consequence-record-q02", "text": "What must an agent not infer from the label alone?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a herpes simplex 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 herpes simplex and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a herpes simplex, 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 herpes simplex, 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 herpes simplex 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 herpes simplex is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a herpes simplex, 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 herpes simplex, 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 herpes simplex 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 } } } }