"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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| 1992 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1997 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1998 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2004 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2006 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2010 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2011 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2015 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2016 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2017 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2020 | 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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Hou P, Tebbs JM, Wang D, McMahan CS, Bilder CR. Array testing for multiplex assays. Biostatistics. 2020 07 01; 21(3):417-431.
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Hitt BD, Bilder CR, Tebbs JM, McMahan CS. The objective function controversy for group testing: Much ado about nothing? Stat Med. 2019 10 30; 38(24):4912-4923.
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Al-Hasan MN, Justo JA. Ignoring the Elephant: Does the Infectious Diseases Society of America Support Sepsis-3 or Pre-sepsis Criteria? Clin Infect Dis. 2019 04 08; 68(8):1431.
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Bilder CR, Tebbs JM, McMahan CS. Informative group testing for multiplex assays. Biometrics. 2019 03; 75(1):278-288.
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Luther VP, Shnekendorf R, Abbo LM, Advani S, Armstrong WS, Barsoumian AE, Beeler CB, Bystritsky R, Cherabuddi K, Cohen S, Hamilton KW, Ince D, Justo JA, Logan A, Lynch JB, Nori P, Ohl CA, Patel PK, Pottinger PS, Schwartz BS, Stack C, Zhou Y. Antimicrobial Stewardship Training for Infectious Diseases Fellows: Program Directors Identify a Curriculum Need. Clin Infect Dis. 2018 09 28; 67(8):1285-1287.
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Warasi MS, McMahan CS, Tebbs JM, Bilder CR. Group testing regression models with dilution submodels. Stat Med. 2017 Dec 30; 36(30):4860-4872.
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Bossart GD, Fair P, Schaefer AM, Reif JS. Health and Environmental Risk Assessment Project for bottlenose dolphins Tursiops truncatus from the southeastern USA. I. Infectious diseases. Dis Aquat Organ. 2017 Jul 24; 125(2):141-153.
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Turner DP, McGuinness SL, Cohen J, Waring LJ, Leder K. Use of pre-travel vaccine-preventable disease serology as a screening tool to identify patients in need of pre-travel vaccination: a retrospective audit. J Travel Med. 2017 May 01; 24(3).
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Lee EC, Asher JM, Goldlust S, Kraemer JD, Lawson AB, Bansal S. Mind the Scales: Harnessing Spatial Big Data for Infectious Disease Surveillance and Inference. J Infect Dis. 2016 12 01; 214(suppl_4):S409-S413.
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Peloquin CA, Dorman SE, Vernon A, Battista Migliori G, Nahid P. Reply to Alffenaar et al. Clin Infect Dis. 2017 01 01; 64(1):105-106.