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Health Occupations > Medicine > Public Health > Epidemiologic Methods > Carrier State
Environment and Public Health > Public Health > Epidemiologic Methods > Carrier State
Population Characteristics > Health > Public Health > Epidemiologic Methods > Carrier State
Investigative Techniques > Epidemiologic Methods > Carrier State

Preferred term

Carrier State  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Asymptomatic Carrier State
  • Asymptomatic Carrier States
  • Carriers, Superspreader
  • Carrier State, Asymptomatic
  • Carrier State, Presymptomatic
  • Carrier, Superspreader
  • Inapparent Infection Carrier
  • Inapparent Infection Carriers
  • Infection Carrier, Inapparent
  • Presymptomatic Carrier State
  • Presymptomatic Carrier States
  • Superspreader Carrier
  • Superspreader Carriers

Note

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

Scope note

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

History note

  • 65(63)

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D002353

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