"Seasons" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Divisions of the year according to some regularly recurrent phenomena usually astronomical or climatic. (From McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 6th ed)
| Descriptor ID |
D012621
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G01.910.645.661 G16.500.275.071.590 N06.230.300.100.250.525
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| Concept/Terms |
Seasonal Variation- Seasonal Variation
- Seasonal Variations
- Variation, Seasonal
- Variations, Seasonal
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Seasons" by people in this website by year, and whether "Seasons" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1996 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1999 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2000 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2004 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2006 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2007 | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2010 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2011 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 2012 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2013 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 2014 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2015 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2016 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2017 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2018 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2019 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2020 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 2021 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2022 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024 | 1 | 6 | 7 |
| 2025 | 1 | 6 | 7 |
| 2026 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Seasons" by people in Profiles.
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Influenza Activity and Estimated Vaccine Effectiveness During the 2025-2026 Influenza Season. JAMA Netw Open. 2026 Jun 01; 9(6):e2618581.
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Interim Estimates of 2025-26 Seasonal Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness - United States, September 2025-February 2026. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2026 Mar 12; 75(9):116-123.
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Respiratory Illness-related Emergency Visits Among Children, COVID-19 and Beyond: Observing a Return to Seasonal Patterns? West J Emerg Med. 2025 Dec 20; 27(1):130-136.
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Asymptomatic and Mildly Symptomatic Influenza Virus Infections by Season: Case-Ascertained Household Transmission Studies, United States, 2017-2023. J Infect Dis. 2025 Oct 15; 232(4):e637-e641.
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Differences in influenza vaccination coverage by race and ethnicity across age groups in the Vaccine Safety Datalink, 2017-18 through 2022-23 influenza seasons. Vaccine. 2025 Oct 03; 64:127667.
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Effectiveness of 2023-2024 seasonal influenza vaccine against influenza-associated emergency department and urgent care encounters among pregnant and non-pregnant women of reproductive age. Vaccine. 2025 Aug 30; 62:127483.
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Seasonal Incidence of Human Metapneumovirus in High-Risk Adults With Medically Attended Acute Respiratory Illness in a Rural US Community. Influenza Other Respir Viruses. 2025 Jul; 19(7):e70119.
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Seasonality of medically attended norovirus gastroenteritis and its association with climatic factors within an US integrated healthcare system, 2016-2019. PLoS One. 2025; 20(5):e0318077.
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Interim Estimates of 2024-2025 Seasonal Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness - Four Vaccine Effectiveness Networks, United States, October 2024-February 2025. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2025 Feb 27; 74(6):83-90.
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Estimating the generation time for influenza transmission using household data in the United States. Epidemics. 2025 Mar; 50:100815.