"Communicable Diseases" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
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.
| Descriptor ID |
D003141
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C01.539.221
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| Concept/Terms |
Communicable Diseases- Communicable Diseases
- Communicable Disease
- Disease, Communicable
- Diseases, Communicable
- Infectious Diseases
- Disease, Infectious
- Diseases, Infectious
- Infectious Disease
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Communicable Diseases" by people in this website by year, and whether "Communicable Diseases" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1994 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1995 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1996 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1997 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 1998 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1999 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2000 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2001 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2002 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 2004 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2005 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2006 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 2007 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2008 | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| 2009 | 6 | 1 | 7 |
| 2010 | 7 | 1 | 8 |
| 2011 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2012 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2013 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2014 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2015 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2016 | 8 | 2 | 10 |
| 2017 | 10 | 2 | 12 |
| 2018 | 6 | 1 | 7 |
| 2019 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2020 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2021 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| 2022 | 13 | 0 | 13 |
| 2023 | 13 | 0 | 13 |
| 2024 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Communicable Diseases" by people in Profiles.
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Carl Fl?gge, one of the last holistic hygienists and discoverer of droplet transmission of infectious diseases. Med Microbiol Immunol. 2024 Aug 02; 213(1):17.
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Overcoming Challenges for Non-US International Medical Graduates in Pediatric Infectious Diseases. J Pediatric Infect Dis Soc. 2024 Jul 20; 13(7):374-378.
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Engineering platforms for localized long-acting immune modulation. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2024 Mar; 153(3):572-575.
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The impact of a blood-culture diagnostic stewardship intervention on utilization rates and antimicrobial stewardship. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2024 May; 45(5):670-673.
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Distribution of P2Y and P2X purinergic receptor expression within the intestine. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol. 2024 02 01; 326(2):G107-G119.
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American Society of Transplantation and Cellular Therapy Series: #7 - Management of Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infections in Hematopoietic Cell Transplant Recipients. Transplant Cell Ther. 2023 Dec; 29(12):730-738.
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Controversies regarding management of Helicobacter pylori infections. Curr Opin Gastroenterol. 2023 11 01; 39(6):482-489.
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Clinical Approach to Evaluation of Underlying Cardiac Device Infection in Patients Hospitalized with Bacteremia. Methodist Debakey Cardiovasc J. 2023; 19(4):48-57.
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Profiling endogenous, environmental, and infectious disease mutational signatures in blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasms. Int J Lab Hematol. 2023 Oct; 45(5):726-734.
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Severe and fatal neonatal infections linked to a new variant of echovirus 11, France, July 2022 to April 2023. Euro Surveill. 2023 06; 28(22).