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Communicable Diseases(Topical Term)

Preferred form: Communicable Diseases
Used for/see from:
  • Infectious Diseases
  • n: Communicable Disease
  • n: Disease, Communicable
  • n: Disease, Infectious
  • n: Diseases, Communicable
  • n: Diseases, Infectious
  • n: Infectious Disease

general or unspecified; prefer specific disease

An illness caused by an infectious agent or its toxins that occurs through the direct or indirect transmission of the infectious agent or its products from an infected individual or via an animal, vector or the inanimate environment to a susceptible animal or human host.

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