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Abstract
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.
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7 entry terms
- Infectious Diseases
- Communicable Disease
- Disease, Communicable
- Disease, Infectious
- Diseases, Communicable
- Diseases, Infectious
- Infectious Disease
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35 allowable subheadings
Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, transmission, urine, veterinary, virology.
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general or unspecified; prefer specific disease
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Communicable Diseases. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D003141. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D003141
- Communicable Diseases. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infectious_disease
- Communicable Diseases. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18123741