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

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Communicable Diseases".

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 28 publications over 17 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2008 and 2009 and 2021 and 2024

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1996	1	0	1
2002	0	1	1
2005	1	0	1
2007	1	0	1
2008	2	1	3
2009	0	3	3
2011	0	1	1
2013	1	0	1
2014	0	1	1
2016	2	0	2
2017	1	1	2
2018	1	0	1
2019	1	0	1
2021	3	0	3
2022	1	0	1
2023	2	0	2
2024	2	1	3

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

Ong SWX, Luo J, Fridman DJ, Lee SM, Johnstone J, Schwartz KL, Diong C, Patel SN, MacFadden DR, Langford BJ, Tong SYC, Brown KA, Daneman N. Association Between Infectious Diseases Consultation and Mortality in Hospitalized Patients With Gram-negative Bloodstream Infection: A Retrospective Population-wide Cohort Study. Clin Infect Dis. 2024 10 15; 79(4):855-863.

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Woods CR, Bradley JS, Chatterjee A, Kronman MP, Arnold SR, Robinson J, Copley LA, Arrieta AC, Fowler SL, Harrison C, Eppes SC, Creech CB, Stadler LP, Shah SS, Mazur LJ, Carrillo-Marquez MA, Allen CH, Lavergne V. Clinical Practice Guideline by the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society (PIDS) and the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA): 2023 Guideline on Diagnosis and Management of Acute Bacterial Arthritis in Pediatrics. J Pediatric Infect Dis Soc. 2024 Jan 29; 13(1):1-59.

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Beverley J, Babcock S, Carvalho G, Cowell LG, Duesing S, He Y, Hurley R, Merrell E, Scheuermann RH, Smith B. Coordinating virus research: The Virus Infectious Disease Ontology. PLoS One. 2024; 19(1):e0285093.

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Miller AC, Koeneman SH, Suneja M, Cavanaugh JE, Polgreen PM. Diurnal temperature variation and the implications for diagnosis and infectious disease screening: a population-based study. Diagnosis (Berl). 2024 02 01; 11(1):54-62.

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Hemingway-Foday J, Tita A, Chomba E, Mwenechanya M, Mweemba T, Nolen T, Lokangaka A, Tshefu Kitoto A, Lomendje G, Hibberd PL, Patel A, Das PK, Kurhe K, Goudar SS, Kavi A, Metgud M, Saleem S, Tikmani SS, Esamai F, Nyongesa P, Sagwe A, Figueroa L, Mazariegos M, Billah SM, Haque R, Shahjahan Siraj M, Goldenberg RL, Bauserman M, Bose C, Liechty EA, Ekhaguere OA, Krebs NF, Derman R, Petri WA, Koso-Thomas M, McClure E, Carlo WA. Prevention of maternal and neonatal death/infections with a single oral dose of azithromycin in women in labour in low-income and middle-income countries (A-PLUS): a study protocol for a multinational, randomised placebo-controlled clinical trial. BMJ Open. 2023 08 30; 13(8):e068487.

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Lee S, Zhang Y, Newhams M, Novak T, Thomas PG, Mourani PM, Hall MW, Loftis LL, Cvijanovich NZ, Tarquinio KM, Schwarz AJ, Weiss SL, Thomas NJ, Markovitz B, Cullimore ML, Sanders RC, Zinter MS, Sullivan JE, Halasa NB, Bembea MM, Giuliano JS, Typpo KV, Nofziger RA, Shein SL, Kong M, Coates BM, Weiss ST, Lange C, Su HC, Randolph AG. DDX58 Is Associated With Susceptibility to Severe Influenza Virus Infection in Children and Adolescents. J Infect Dis. 2022 11 28; 226(11):2030-2036.

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Woods CR, Bradley JS, Chatterjee A, Copley LA, Robinson J, Kronman MP, Arrieta A, Fowler SL, Harrison C, Carrillo-Marquez MA, Arnold SR, Eppes SC, Stadler LP, Allen CH, Mazur LJ, Creech CB, Shah SS, Zaoutis T, Feldman DS, Lavergne V. Clinical Practice Guideline by the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society and the Infectious Diseases Society of America: 2021 Guideline on Diagnosis and Management of Acute Hematogenous Osteomyelitis in Pediatrics. J Pediatric Infect Dis Soc. 2021 Sep 23; 10(8):801-844.

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Lantos PM, Rumbaugh J, Bockenstedt LK, Falck-Ytter YT, Aguero-Rosenfeld ME, Auwaerter PG, Baldwin K, Bannuru RR, Belani KK, Bowie WR, Branda JA, Clifford DB, DiMario FJ, Halperin JJ, Krause PJ, Lavergne V, Liang MH, Meissner HC, Nigrovic LE, Nocton JJJ, Osani MC, Pruitt AA, Rips J, Rosenfeld LE, Savoy ML, Sood SK, Steere AC, Strle F, Sundel R, Tsao J, Vaysbrot EE, Wormser GP, Zemel LS. Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), American Academy of Neurology (AAN), and American College of Rheumatology (ACR): 2020 Guidelines for the Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment of Lyme Disease. Clin Infect Dis. 2021 01 23; 72(1):e1-e48.

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Lantos PM, Rumbaugh J, Bockenstedt LK, Falck-Ytter YT, Aguero-Rosenfeld ME, Auwaerter PG, Baldwin K, Bannuru RR, Belani KK, Bowie WR, Branda JA, Clifford DB, DiMario FJ, Halperin JJ, Krause PJ, Lavergne V, Liang MH, Meissner HC, Nigrovic LE, Nocton JJJ, Osani MC, Pruitt AA, Rips J, Rosenfeld LE, Savoy ML, Sood SK, Steere AC, Strle F, Sundel R, Tsao J, Vaysbrot EE, Wormser GP, Zemel LS. Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), American Academy of Neurology (AAN), and American College of Rheumatology (ACR): 2020 Guidelines for the Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment of Lyme Disease. Clin Infect Dis. 2021 01 23; 72(1):1-8.

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Thomas R, Madan R, Gooptu M, Hatabu H, Hammer MM. Reply to "The Reversed Halo Sign: Criteria for Differentiation of Infectious and Noninfectious Diseases". AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2019 12; 213(6):W296.

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