Faucial diphtheria

Summary

Faucial diphtheria (MONDO:0020860) is a disease. A subtype of diphtheria — broader associated-gene and molecular evidence is on the parent page (see Disease family below).

Clinical features

No curated clinical features (Orphanet) for this disease.

Identifiers

Disease identifiers

Field	Value
Canonical name	faucial diphtheria
Mondo ID	MONDO:0020860
NCIT	C34545
SNOMED CT	3419005
UMLS	C0012556
MedGen	3857
GARD	0025265
Anatomy (UBERON)	UBERON:0000341
Is cancer (heuristic)	no

Also known as: Diphtheritic membrane · Diphtheritic membranous angina · faucial diphtheria

Disease family

This is a subtype of diphtheria. Genetic, therapeutic, and trial evidence is largely curated at the broader-term level — see the parent page for the associated-gene cohort and molecular evidence.

Classification path: disease › human disease › disease by etiologic mechanism › disease of primarily extrinsic mechanism › infectious disease › bacterial infectious disease › primary bacterial infectious disease › diphtheria › faucial diphtheria

Related subtypes (6): cutaneous diphtheria, anterior nasal diphtheria, pseudomembranous diphtheritic conjunctivitis, laryngeal diphtheria, nasopharyngeal diphtheria, diphtheritic myocarditis

Genetics & variants

GWAS landscape

No GWAS associations recorded — common-variant (GWAS) studies don’t cover this disease (typical for Mendelian / rare diseases). See the curated gene cohort and Mendelian overlap below.

Variant details and genetic-evidence tiers

No tiered GWAS variants or ClinVar records for this disease.

Genes & proteins

No associated-gene cohort resolved for this disease. Atlas builds the molecular and therapeutic sections — associated genes, protein families, druggability, pathways, interactions, and drug associations — by aggregating over a disease’s associated genes (resolved via GWAS / GenCC / ClinVar / CIViC), and none resolved here. This is expected for antibody-mediated, autoimmune, or otherwise non-gene-defined conditions; the curated evidence for this disease is its clinical features, GWAS susceptibility, and clinical trials (above).

Function

No pathway enrichment — requires an associated-gene cohort.

Therapeutics

No druggable-target or therapeutic data for this disease’s cohort.

Clinical trials & evidence

Clinical trials

Clinical trials: 0.