"Epidemics" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Sudden outbreaks of a disease in a country or region not previously recognized in that area, or a rapid increase in the number of new cases of a previous existing endemic disease. Epidemics can also refer to outbreaks of disease in animal or plant populations.
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D058872
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| MeSH Number(s) |
N06.850.290.200
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| 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Epidemics" by people in Profiles.
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Yersinia pestis strains from Latvia show depletion of the pla virulence gene at the end of the second plague pandemic. Sci Rep. 2020 09 03; 10(1):14628.
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