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Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms > Pathologic Processes > Disease Attributes > Communicable Diseases
Infections > Communicable Diseases

Preferred term

Communicable Diseases  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Disease, Infectious
  • Diseases, Infectious
  • Infectious Disease
  • Infectious Diseases

Note

  • general or unspecified; prefer specific disease

Scope note

  • 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.

In other languages

  • tartuntataudit

    Finnish

  • alii morbi infectiosi
  • andra infektionssjukdomar
  • annan eller icke specificerad infektionssjukdom
  • inf
  • infectio acuta NAS
  • infectio NAS
  • infectio NUD
  • infektiosairaudet
  • infektiosairaus
  • infektiotaudit
  • infektiotauti
  • infektiös sjukdom
  • morbi infectiosi alii et non specificati
  • morbus contagiosus
  • muu tai määrittämätön tartuntatauti
  • määrittämätön infektio
  • smittsam sjukdom
  • tartuntasairaudet
  • tartuntasairaus
  • tartuntatauti
  • Smittsamma sjukdomar

    Swedish

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D003141

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