Help:Formatting guidelines
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Nomenclature conventions
- Use AAC conventions for antimicrobial names and abbreviations
- Use CDC EID conventions for species naming and italicization
- Appropriate taxonomy of microorganisms
- Use ICTV conventions for naming viruses
- Use LPSN database for naming bacteria
Creating a new page
- In general, pages should start as either a syndrome (with a focus on the differential and workup) or a specific organism or disease
- For specific diseases, start with the organism species name as the page title
- If there are multiple diseases that it causes, each of which has a different pathogenesis or management, then they should be split off into separate pages
- e.g. TB starts as M. tuberclosis, which links to separate pages for pulmonary TB, non-pulmonary TB, disseminated/miliary TB, DILI, etc.
Page layout
- Background
- Microbiology
- History
- Life Cycle
- Epidemiology
- Pathophysiology
- Clinical Manifestations
- Prognosis and Complications
- Differential Diagnosis
- Investigations
- Diagnosis
- Management
- Further Reading
Citations
- This wiki uses the semantic citation framework
- The process is as follows:
- Go to Find citable metadata (link is on the front page). Search by DOI (or other), and then click "Create". Copy the citation key from the newly-created reference (e.g. "findlater3847").
- In your article, find the place that you wish to insert the reference. The reference can be inserted using a CiteRef and the copied citation key (e.g. "[[CiteRef::findlater3847]]").
