Diseases

Imported Communicable Diseases

Infectious diseases originating in one geographically delineated ecosystem that are carried (by travel or immigration) to another geographically delineated ecosystem by an infected individual, animal, or disease vector.

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Abstract

Infectious diseases originating in one geographically delineated ecosystem that are carried (by travel or immigration) to another geographically delineated ecosystem by an infected individual, animal, or disease vector.

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21 entry terms
  • Communicable Diseases, Imported
  • Imported Diseases, Infectious
  • Imported Infections
  • Imported Infectious Diseases
  • Communicable Disease, Imported
  • Disease, Imported Communicable
  • Disease, Imported Infectious
  • Disease, Infectious Imported
  • Diseases, Imported Communicable
  • Diseases, Imported Infectious
  • Diseases, Infectious Imported
  • Imported Communicable Disease
  • Imported Disease, Infectious
  • Imported Infection
  • Imported Infectious Disease
  • Infection, Imported
  • Infections, Imported
  • Infectious Disease, Imported
  • Infectious Diseases, Imported
  • Infectious Imported Disease
  • Infectious Imported Diseases

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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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2018

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Imported Communicable Diseases. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D000076263. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D000076263
  2. Imported Communicable Diseases. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q112835846