Health Care

Carrier State

The condition of harboring an infective organism without manifesting symptoms of infection. The organism must be readily transmissible to another susceptible host.

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Abstract

The condition of harboring an infective organism without manifesting symptoms of infection. The organism must be readily transmissible to another susceptible host.

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Synonyms

25 entry terms
  • Carrier States
  • Asymptomatic Carrier State
  • Asymptomatic Infection Carrier
  • Inapparent Infection Carrier
  • Presymptomatic Carrier State
  • Presymptomatic Infection Carrier
  • Super-spreader Carrier
  • Superspreader Carrier
  • Asymptomatic Carrier States
  • Asymptomatic Infection Carriers
  • Carrier State, Asymptomatic
  • Carrier State, Presymptomatic
  • Carrier, Super-spreader
  • Carrier, Superspreader
  • Carriers, Super-spreader
  • Carriers, Superspreader
  • Inapparent Infection Carriers
  • Infection Carrier, Asymptomatic
  • Infection Carrier, Inapparent
  • Infection Carrier, Presymptomatic
  • Presymptomatic Carrier States
  • Presymptomatic Infection Carriers
  • Super spreader Carrier
  • Super-spreader Carriers
  • Superspreader Carriers

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Aspects Covered

26 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, classification, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, therapy, transmission, urine, veterinary, virology.

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Indexing Annotation

disease carriers, not genetic carriers ( = CARRIERS, GENETIC see HETEROZYGOTE); coordinate with disease, not organism

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65(63)

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  1. N06.850w.520w.169w

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NLM Classification

QW 700

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Carrier State. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D002353. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D002353
  2. Carrier State. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymptomatic_carrier
  3. Carrier State. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1549382