"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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| 1995 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1998 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2001 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2007 | 5 | 2 | 7 |
| 2009 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2010 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2011 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2012 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 2013 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2014 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2016 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2017 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2018 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2019 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2020 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2021 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Communicable Diseases" by people in Profiles.
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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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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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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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Zhan W, Muhuri M, Tai PWL, Gao G. Vectored Immunotherapeutics for Infectious Diseases: Can rAAVs Be The Game Changers for Fighting Transmissible Pathogens? Front Immunol. 2021; 12:673699.
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McEntire CR, Dowd RS, Orru' E, David C, Small JE, Cervantes-Arslanian A, Lerner DP. Acute Myelopathy: Vascular and Infectious Diseases. Neurol Clin. 2021 05; 39(2):489-512.
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Glenn DA, Henderson CD, O'Shaughnessy M, Hu Y, Bomback A, Gibson K, Greenbaum LA, Zee J, Mariani L, Falk R, Hogan S, Mottl A. Infection-Related Acute Care Events among Patients with Glomerular Disease. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2020 12 07; 15(12):1749-1761.