"Disease Outbreaks" 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.
Sudden increase in the incidence of a disease. The concept includes EPIDEMICS and PANDEMICS.
| Descriptor ID |
D004196
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| MeSH Number(s) |
N06.850.290
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| Concept/Terms |
Disease Outbreaks- Disease Outbreaks
- Disease Outbreak
- Outbreak, Disease
- Outbreaks, Disease
- Outbreaks
- Infectious Disease Outbreaks
- Disease Outbreak, Infectious
- Disease Outbreaks, Infectious
- Infectious Disease Outbreak
- Outbreak, Infectious Disease
- Outbreaks, Infectious Disease
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1995 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 1996 | 6 | 1 | 7 |
| 1997 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 1998 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| 1999 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2000 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2001 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2002 | 7 | 3 | 10 |
| 2003 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2004 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| 2005 | 4 | 3 | 7 |
| 2006 | 4 | 4 | 8 |
| 2007 | 4 | 4 | 8 |
| 2008 | 5 | 4 | 9 |
| 2009 | 12 | 6 | 18 |
| 2010 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| 2011 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2012 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2013 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2014 | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| 2015 | 5 | 2 | 7 |
| 2016 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2017 | 4 | 7 | 11 |
| 2018 | 3 | 5 | 8 |
| 2019 | 5 | 4 | 9 |
| 2020 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 2021 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 2022 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 2023 | 0 | 9 | 9 |
| 2024 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Disease Outbreaks" by people in Profiles.
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Modeling Reemergence of Vaccine-Eliminated Infectious Diseases Under Declining Vaccination in the US. JAMA. 2025 06 24; 333(24):2176-2187.
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COVID-19 outbreaks surveillance through text mining applied to electronic health records. BMC Infect Dis. 2024 Mar 28; 24(1):359.
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Evaluation of humoral immune response after yellow fever infection: an observational study on patients from the 2017-2018 sylvatic outbreak in Brazil. Microbiol Spectr. 2024 May 02; 12(5):e0370323.
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Maternal and perinatal health research during emerging and ongoing epidemic threats: a landscape analysis and expert consultation. BMJ Glob Health. 2024 Mar 07; 9(3).
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Ultrasensitive one-pot detection of monkeypox virus with RPA and CRISPR in a sucrose-aided multiphase aqueous system. Microbiol Spectr. 2024 Jan 11; 12(1):e0226723.
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Wastewater sequencing reveals community and variant dynamics of the collective human virome. Nat Commun. 2023 10 28; 14(1):6878.
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Nurse burnout before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic comparative review. Front Public Health. 2023; 11:1225431.
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Notes from the Field: Outbreak of Norovirus Illness Caused by Consumption of Oysters Harvested from Galveston Bay, Texas - November-December 2022. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2023 09 01; 72(35):968-969.
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Characterization and Investigation of Risk Factors for Late-Relapsing Hepatitis After Yellow Fever. Clin Infect Dis. 2023 08 22; 77(4):565-573.
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Ebola virus disease: A review for the emergency medicine clinician. Am J Emerg Med. 2023 08; 70:30-40.