Communicable Diseases

"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.

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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
MeSH Number(s)	C01.539.221
Concept/Terms	Communicable Diseases Communicable Diseases Communicable Disease Disease, Communicable Diseases, Communicable Infectious Diseases Disease, Infectious Diseases, Infectious Infectious Disease

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Diseases [C]
Bacterial Infections and Mycoses [C01]
Infection [C01.539]
Communicable Diseases [C01.539.221]

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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.

Bar chart showing 71 publications over 22 distinct years, with a maximum of 8 publications in 2007

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1995	1	0	1
1998	1	0	1
2001	0	2	2
2005	2	0	2
2006	1	1	2
2007	5	3	8
2009	0	3	3
2010	3	1	4
2011	2	1	3
2012	2	3	5
2013	4	1	5
2014	1	3	4
2015	1	0	1
2016	2	2	4
2017	2	1	3
2018	4	1	5
2019	2	1	3
2020	3	0	3
2021	6	0	6
2022	3	0	3
2023	2	0	2
2024	1	0	1

Below are the most recent publications written about "Communicable Diseases" by people in Profiles.

Harmon SL, LaChance E, Miller JL, Patel S, Patel AR. Standardized Clinical Infectious Diseases Pharmacy Care Delivery and Antimicrobial Stewardship Program Management Within a Large, Integrated Healthcare System. J Pharm Pract. 2025 Jun; 38(3):340-346.

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Adalja A, McQuillen DP, Meyer D. How Infectious Disease Experts Impacted the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Response: Lessons From the Front Lines. Clin Infect Dis. 2023 06 08; 76(11):1875-1878.

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Pyden A, Rugwizangoga B, Solomon IH, Laga AC. Teaching Infectious Disease Pathology and Taking it To Africa. Mod Pathol. 2023 05; 36(5):100168.

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Lyimo BM, Popkin-Hall ZR, Giesbrecht DJ, Mandara CI, Madebe RA, Bakari C, Pereus D, Seth MD, Ngamba RM, Mbwambo RB, MacInnis B, Mbwambo D, Garimo I, Chacky F, Aaron S, Lusasi A, Molteni F, Njau R, Cunningham JA, Lazaro S, Mohamed A, Juliano JJ, Bailey JA, Ishengoma DS. Potential Opportunities and Challenges of Deploying Next Generation Sequencing and CRISPR-Cas Systems to Support Diagnostics and Surveillance Towards Malaria Control and Elimination in Africa. Front Cell Infect Microbiol. 2022; 12:757844.

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Schiffer CA, Hazuda DJ. Call for Papers: Drug Resistance in Infectious Diseases and Beyond. ACS Infect Dis. 2022 04 08; 8(4):665-666.

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Aylett-Bullock J, Gilman RT, Hall I, Kennedy D, Evers ES, Katta A, Ahmed H, Fong K, Adib K, Al Ariqi L, Ardalan A, Nabeth P, von Harbou K, Hoffmann Pham K, Cuesta-Lazaro C, Quera-Bofarull A, Gidraf Kahindo Maina A, Valentijn T, Harlass S, Krauss F, Huang C, Moreno Jimenez R, Comes T, Gaanderse M, Milano L, Luengo-Oroz M. Epidemiological modelling in refugee and internally displaced people settlements: challenges and ways forward. BMJ Glob Health. 2022 03; 7(3).

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Dasgupta S, Moore MR, Dimitrov DT, Hughes JP. Bayesian validation framework for dynamic epidemic models. Epidemics. 2021 12; 37:100514.

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Madore LS, Fisher DJ. The Role of Breast Milk in Infectious Disease. Clin Perinatol. 2021 06; 48(2):359-378.

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Abraham GM, Saravolatz LD. The American Board of Internal Medicine's New Longitudinal Assessment Option and What It Means for Infectious Disease Specialists. Clin Infect Dis. 2021 05 18; 72(10):1854-1857.

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Eden M, Castonguay R, Munkhbat B, Balasubramanian H, Gopalappa C. Agent-based evolving network modeling: a new simulation method for modeling low prevalence infectious diseases. Health Care Manag Sci. 2021 Sep; 24(3):623-639.

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