"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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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Communicable Diseases" by people in Profiles.
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Diabetes and climate change: current evidence and implications for people with diabetes, clinicians and policy stakeholders. Diabetologia. 2023 06; 66(6):1003-1015.
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Optimized workflow for single-cell transcriptomics on infectious diseases including COVID-19. STAR Protoc. 2020 12 18; 1(3):100233.
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Immune memory characteristics of innate lymphoid cells. Curr Opin Infect Dis. 2019 06; 32(3):196-203.
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IDO-expressing regulatory dendritic cells in cancer and chronic infection. J Mol Med (Berl). 2008 Feb; 86(2):145-60.
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Silencing of disease-related genes by small interfering RNAs. Curr Mol Med. 2004 Aug; 4(5):507-17.
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