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... > Health Occupations > Medicine > Public Health > Public Health Practice > Communicable Disease Control > Infection Control > Antisepsis > Asepsis
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Asepsis  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Note

  • differentiate from ANTISEPSIS: ANTISEPSIS is the destruction of pathogens, ASEPSIS is the prev of their invasion

Scope note

  • The prevention of access by infecting organisms to the locus of potential infection.

History note

  • 91(75); was see under ANTISEPSIS 1975-90

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D001207

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