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Abstract
The prevention of access by infecting organisms to the locus of potential infection.
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4 allowable subheadings
Indexed with the subheadings history, instrumentation, methods, standards.
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Indexing Annotation
differentiate from ANTISEPSIS: ANTISEPSIS is the destruction of pathogens, ASEPSIS is the prev of their invasion
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History Note
91(75); was see under ANTISEPSIS 1975-90
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Asepsis. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D001207. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D001207
- Asepsis. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asepsis
- Asepsis. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q723758