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Disease Eradication

Termination of all transmission of infection by global extermination of the infectious agent through surveillance and containment (From Porta, A Dictionary of Epidemiology, 5th ed).

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Termination of all transmission of infection by global extermination of the infectious agent through surveillance and containment (From Porta, A Dictionary of Epidemiology, 5th ed).

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7 entry terms
  • Disease Eradications
  • Eradication, Disease
  • Eradications, Disease
  • Disease Elimination
  • Disease Eliminations
  • Elimination, Disease
  • Eliminations, Disease

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Indexed with the subheadings economics, history, instrumentation, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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coordinate with specific disease / prev

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2012

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  • Communicable Disease Control (1963-2011)
  • specific disease/prevention and control (1968-2011)

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  1. N06.850w.275w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Disease Eradication. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D060740. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D060740
  2. Disease Eradication. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eradication_of_infectious_diseases
  3. Disease Eradication. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1347969