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 results_in infection located_in intestinal mucosa with larvae of the nematodes transmitted_by ingestion of raw or poorly cooked saltwater fish, has_material_basis_in Anisakis simplex or has_material_basis_in Pseudoterranova decipiens and has_symptom abdominal pain, has_symptom nausea and vomiting. Invasive anisakiasis results in the infection of omentum, pancreas, liver, and lung. (DO)