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Abstract
The transmission of infectious disease or pathogens. When transmission is within the same species, the mode can be horizontal or vertical (INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL).
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Synonyms
46 entry terms
- Communicable Disease Transmission
- Disease Transmission, Infectious
- Infection Transmission
- Pathogen Transmission
- Transmission of Infectious Disease
- Transmission, Infectious Disease
- Disease Transmission, Communicable
- Transmission, Communicable Disease
- Transmission, Infection
- Transmission, Pathogen
- Autochthonous Transmission
- Close-Contact Infectious Disease Transmission
- Close-Contact Transmission
- Community Spread
- Community Transmission
- Disease Superspreader Event
- Disease Superspreading
- Droplet Transmission of Infectious Disease
- Droplet Transmission, Infectious Disease
- Horizontal Transmission of Infection
- Horizontal Transmission of Infectious Disease
- Infection Transmission, Horizontal
- Infectious Disease Droplet Transmission
- Infectious Disease Transmission, Horizontal
- Pathogen Transmission, Horizontal
- Person-to-Person Transmission
- Autochthonous Transmissions
- Close Contact Infectious Disease Transmission
- Close Contact Transmission
- Close-Contact Transmissions
- Community Transmissions
- Disease Superspreader Events
- Disease Superspreadings
- Event, Disease Superspreader
- Events, Disease Superspreader
- Infection Horizontal Transmission
- Person to Person Transmission
- Superspreader Event, Disease
- Superspreader Events, Disease
- Superspreading, Disease
- Superspreadings, Disease
- Transmission, Autochthonous
- Transmission, Close-Contact
- Transmission, Person-to-Person
- Transmissions, Autochthonous
- Transmissions, Community
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8 allowable subheadings
Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, prevention & control, statistics & numerical data, veterinary.
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Indexing Annotation
general or unspecified; prefer /transm with specific diseases
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History Note
2009 (1995)
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Previous Indexing
- Communicable Diseases/transmission (1974-1994)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Infectious Disease Transmission. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D018562. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D018562
- Infectious Disease Transmission. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathogen_transmission
- Infectious Disease Transmission. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q525512