Concept information
Preferred term
Infections
Type
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Topical Descriptor
Narrower concepts
- Aneurysm, Infected
- Arthritis, Infectious
- Asymptomatic Infections
- Bacterial Infections and Mycoses
- Bone Diseases, Infectious
- Cardiovascular Infections
- Catheter-Related Infections
- Central Nervous System Infections
- Coinfection
- Communicable Diseases
- Community-Acquired Infections
- Cross Infection
- Eye Infections
- Focal Infection
- Gingivitis
- Hepatitis, Animal
- Intraabdominal Infections
- Laboratory Infection
- Latent Infection
- Parasitic Diseases
- Pelvic Infection
- Persistent Infection
- Poult Enteritis Mortality Syndrome
- Pregnancy Complications, Infectious
- Prosthesis-Related Infections
- Reproductive Tract Infections
- Respiratory Tract Infections
- Sepsis
- Skin Diseases, Infectious
- Soft Tissue Infections
- Suppuration
- Toxemia
- Urinary Tract Infections
- Vaccine-Preventable Diseases
- Vector Borne Diseases
- Virus Diseases
- Waterborne Diseases
- Wound Infection
- Zoonoses
Entry terms
- Infection
- Infection and Infestation
- Infections and Infestations
- Infestation and Infection
- Infestations and Infections
Note
- general only; prefer specifics; /prev = INFECTION CONTROL but see note there
Scope note
- Invasion of the host organism by microorganisms or their toxins or by parasites that can cause pathological conditions or diseases.
History note
- 2020; was Infection 1963-2019; /prevention & control was INFECTION/prevention & control 1966-91
In other languages
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Finnish
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infectio
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infektio
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tartunnat
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tartunta
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Swedish
URI
http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D007239
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