Disciplines and Occupations

Infectious Disease Medicine

A branch of internal medicine concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of INFECTIOUS DISEASES.

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Abstract

A branch of internal medicine concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of INFECTIOUS DISEASES.

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Synonyms

11 entry terms
  • Infectious Disease Specialty
  • Infectious Diseases Specialty
  • Disease Medicine, Infectious
  • Diseases Specialty, Infectious
  • Infectious Disease Specialties
  • Infectious Diseases Specialties
  • Medicine, Infectious Disease
  • Specialties, Infectious Disease
  • Specialties, Infectious Diseases
  • Specialty, Infectious Disease
  • Specialty, Infectious Diseases

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Aspects Covered

12 allowable subheadings

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

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Indexing Annotation

use for the discipline (education, history, etc) only; corresponding disease term is INFECTIOUS DISEASES

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History Note

2009

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Infectious Disease Medicine. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D055552. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D055552
  2. Infectious Disease Medicine. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infectious_diseases_(medical_specialty)
  3. Infectious Disease Medicine. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q788926