"Communicable Diseases" 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.
An illness caused by an infectious agent or its toxins that occurs through the direct or indirect transmission of the infectious agent or its products from an infected individual or via an animal, vector or the inanimate environment to a susceptible animal or human host.
| Descriptor ID |
D003141
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C01.539.221
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| Concept/Terms |
Communicable Diseases- Communicable Diseases
- Communicable Disease
- Disease, Communicable
- Diseases, Communicable
- Infectious Diseases
- Disease, Infectious
- Diseases, Infectious
- Infectious Disease
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2008 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2009 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Communicable Diseases" by people in Profiles.
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Gastrointestinal symptoms and fecal shedding of SARS-CoV-2 RNA suggest prolonged gastrointestinal infection. Med. 2022 06 10; 3(6):371-387.e9.
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Order of Live and Inactivated Vaccines and Risk of Non-vaccine-targeted Infections in US Children 11-23 Months of Age. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2020 03; 39(3):247-253.
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Infectious Disease Hospitalizations Among American Indian/Alaska Native and Non-American Indian/Alaska Native Persons in Alaska, 2010-2011. Public Health Rep. 2017 Jan/Feb; 132(1):65-75.
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Epidemiology of Infectious Disease-Related Death After Release from Prison, Washington State, United States, and Queensland, Australia: A Cohort Study. Public Health Rep. 2016 Jul-Aug; 131(4):574-82.
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Disparities in infectious disease hospitalizations for American Indian/ Alaska Native people. Public Health Rep. 2011 Jul-Aug; 126(4):508-21.
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Non-cancer mortality in poultry slaughtering/processing plant workers belonging to a union pension fund. Environ Int. 2011 Feb; 37(2):322-7.
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Infectious disease hospitalizations in the United States. Clin Infect Dis. 2009 Oct 01; 49(7):1025-35.
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Prenatal exposure to maternal infection and executive dysfunction in adult schizophrenia. Am J Psychiatry. 2009 Jun; 166(6):683-90.
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Private doctors' practices, knowledge, and attitude to reporting of communicable diseases: a national survey in Taiwan. BMC Infect Dis. 2009 Jan 29; 9:11.
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Epidemiology of acute infections among patients with chronic kidney disease. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2008 Sep; 3(5):1487-93.