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Abstract
Any infection acquired in the community, that is, contrasted with those acquired in a health care facility (CROSS INFECTION). An infection would be classified as community-acquired if the patient had not recently been in a health care facility or been in contact with someone who had been recently in a health care facility.
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- Community Acquired Infection
- Community-Acquired Infection
- Infections, Community-Acquired
- Acquired Infection, Community
- Acquired Infections, Community
- Community Acquired Infections
- Infection, Community Acquired
- Infection, Community-Acquired
- Infections, Community Acquired
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, transmission, urine, veterinary, virology.
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contrasted with hospital- or other health facil-acquired ( = CROSS INFECTION); IM GEN only; coord NIM with specific community-acquired infect (IM), if discussed
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- National Library of Medicine. Community-Acquired Infections. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D017714. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D017714
- Community-Acquired Infections. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25377722