RGD uses the Human Disease Ontology (DO, https://disease-ontology.org/) for disease curation across species. RGD automatically downloads each new release of the ontology on a monthly basis. Some additional terms which are required for RGD's curation purposes but are not currently covered in the official version of DO have been added. As corresponding terms are added to DO, these custom terms are retired and the DO terms substituted in existing annotations and subsequently used for curation.
A parasitic helminthiasis infectious disease that involves intestinal infection by the parasite of the genus Heterophyes. The symptoms are diarrhea and colicky abdominal pain. Migration of the eggs to the heart, results in fatal myocardial and valvular damage. Brain can also be infected. (DO)