"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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Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Communicable Diseases".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Communicable Diseases".
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 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 1995 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 1996 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 1997 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 1998 | 4 | 3 | 7 |
| 1999 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2000 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 2001 | 8 | 2 | 10 |
| 2002 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| 2003 | 5 | 4 | 9 |
| 2004 | 8 | 6 | 14 |
| 2005 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| 2006 | 6 | 1 | 7 |
| 2007 | 4 | 4 | 8 |
| 2008 | 10 | 4 | 14 |
| 2009 | 12 | 8 | 20 |
| 2010 | 9 | 5 | 14 |
| 2011 | 15 | 4 | 19 |
| 2012 | 9 | 5 | 14 |
| 2013 | 13 | 3 | 16 |
| 2014 | 23 | 6 | 29 |
| 2015 | 22 | 8 | 30 |
| 2016 | 12 | 12 | 24 |
| 2017 | 11 | 7 | 18 |
| 2018 | 16 | 10 | 26 |
| 2019 | 17 | 7 | 24 |
| 2020 | 22 | 4 | 26 |
| 2021 | 26 | 1 | 27 |
| 2022 | 32 | 0 | 32 |
| 2023 | 31 | 2 | 33 |
| 2024 | 15 | 4 | 19 |
Below are the most recent publications written about "Communicable Diseases" by people in Profiles.
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Challenges and Approaches to Establishing Multi-Pathogen Serosurveillance: Findings from the 2023 Serosurveillance Summit. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2024 Nov 06; 111(5):1145-1152.
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Waning Interest in Infectious Diseases Among Trainees: Is Medicine Pulling the Goalie? Clin Infect Dis. 2024 Aug 16; 79(2):430-433.
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Neutrophil Extracellular Traps: An Emerging Therapeutic Target to Improve Infectious Disease Outcomes. J Infect Dis. 2024 Aug 16; 230(2):514-521.
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The pre-transplant evaluation: Considerations for trainees and early career transplant infectious diseases clinician. Transpl Infect Dis. 2024 Aug; 26(4):e14326.
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The Leaders in Epidemiology, Antimicrobial Stewardship, and Public Health (LEAP) Fellowship, a Novel Training Program in Public Health for Infectious Diseases Physicians. Clin Infect Dis. 2024 Jun 14; 78(6):1536-1541.
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Climate change and resilience for antimicrobial stewardship and infection prevention. Curr Opin Infect Dis. 2024 Aug 01; 37(4):270-276.
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Ten Clinical Pearls in Microbiology: How Effective Collaboration Optimizes Patient Care. Am J Med. 2024 Sep; 137(9):818-824.
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New technologies in therapeutic antibody development: The next frontier for treating infectious diseases. Antiviral Res. 2024 07; 227:105902.
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Utility of microbial cell free DNA next-generation sequencing for diagnosis and management of infectious diseases. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis. 2024 Sep; 110(1):116334.
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Infectious Diseases in a Changing Climate. JAMA. 2024 04 16; 331(15):1318-1319.