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Health Occupations > Medicine > Public Health > Epidemiologic Methods > Chain of Infection
Environment and Public Health > Public Health > Epidemiologic Methods > Chain of Infection
Population Characteristics > Health > Public Health > Epidemiologic Methods > Chain of Infection
Investigative Techniques > Epidemiologic Methods > Chain of Infection

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Chain of Infection  

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Scope note

  • A sequence of infection transmission from infectious agent leaving DISEASE RESERVOIR or host through a portal of exit, conveyed by some mode of transmission, and entering through a portal of entry to infect a susceptible host.

History note

  • 2021

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D000086003

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