communicable diseases

Preferred Label : communicable diseases;

MeSH definition : 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.;

MeSH synonym : communicable disease; infectious diseases; diseases, infectious; infectious disease; disease, communicable; diseases, communicable; disease, infectious;

MeSH annotation : /prev COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL for GEN only; do not confuse X ref INFECTIOUS DISEASES with INFECTION: see note there; general or unspecified; prefer specific disease;

Wikipedia link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infectious disease;

Details

Origin ID

D003141;

UMLS CUI

C0009450;

Allowable qualifiers
- blood [MeSH Qualifier]
- cerebrospinal fluid [MeSH Qualifier]
- chemically induced [MeSH Qualifier]
- classification [MeSH Qualifier]
- complications [MeSH Qualifier]
- congenital [MeSH Qualifier]
- diagnosis [MeSH Qualifier]
- diagnostic imaging [MeSH Qualifier]
- diet therapy [MeSH Qualifier]
- drug therapy [MeSH Qualifier]
- economics [MeSH Qualifier]
- embryology [MeSH Qualifier]
- enzymology [MeSH Qualifier]
- epidemiology [MeSH Qualifier]
- ethnology [MeSH Qualifier]
- etiology [MeSH Qualifier]
- genetics [MeSH Qualifier]
- history [MeSH Qualifier]
- immunology [MeSH Qualifier]
- metabolism [MeSH Qualifier]
- microbiology [MeSH Qualifier]
- mortality [MeSH Qualifier]
- nursing [MeSH Qualifier]
- parasitology [MeSH Qualifier]
- pathology [MeSH Qualifier]
- physiopathology [MeSH Qualifier]
- psychology [MeSH Qualifier]
- radiotherapy [MeSH Qualifier]
- rehabilitation [MeSH Qualifier]
- surgery [MeSH Qualifier]
- therapy [MeSH Qualifier]
- transmission [MeSH Qualifier]
- urine [MeSH Qualifier]
- veterinary [MeSH Qualifier]
- virology [MeSH Qualifier]
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Communicable Disorder [NCIt concept]
- Communicable diseases [HPMULTI term]
- Infectious Disease Pathway [NCIt concept]
- Infectious disease [EDAM topic]
- Infectious diseases [PASCAL theme]
- Infectious diseases [UNESCO concept]
- Infectious diseases (specialty) (qualifier value) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Infectious inflammation of intestine (disorder) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Other infectious diseases [ICD-10 Block (who)]
- disease by infectious agent [DO Concept]
- infectious disease [OBI concept]
- infectious disease other/nos [ICPC-2 Rubric]
- infectious diseases [EMDN type]
CISMeF manual mappings
- Contagious disease (navigational concept) [SNOMED CT concept]
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- Communicable Diseases [DeCS]
- Communicable disease [PASCAL descriptor]
- Communicable disease (navigational concept) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Communicable diseases [HPMULTI category]
- Infectious Disorder [NCIt concept]
- Infectious disease [PASCAL descriptor]
- Infectious disease [LOINC method]
- Infectious disease [LOINC component]
- Infectious disease (disorder) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Infectious diseases [LOINC component]
- communicable disease, nos [SNOMED Notion]
- infectious disease [COVID-19 Thesaurus concept]
- infectious disease [Artificial nutrition thesaurus concept]
- infectious disease [Blood Transfusion thesaurus concept]
- infectious disease, nos [SNOMED Notion]
- infectious diseases [CISMeF Querying Strategy]
- infectious diseases [MedlinePlus Topic]
MedlinePlus topic(s)
- germs and hygiene [MedlinePlus Topic]
- infectious diseases [MedlinePlus Topic]
Metaterm(s)
- disease transmission [CISMeF Metaterm]
Record concept(s)
- communicable diseases [MeSH concept]
Related MeSH term(s)
- communicable disease control [MeSH Descriptor]
See also
- disease outbreaks [MeSH Descriptor]
- disease reservoirs [MeSH Descriptor]
- disease transmission, infectious [MeSH Descriptor]
See also (suggested by CISMeF)
- communicable disease control [MeSH Descriptor]
- sexually transmitted diseases [MeSH Descriptor]
- transmission [MeSH Qualifier]
- zoonoses [MeSH Descriptor]
See also inter- (CISMeF)
- Infectious Diseases [IAB term]
Semantic type(s)
- Disease or Syndrome [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Communicable disease (navigational concept) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Contagious disease (navigational concept) [SNOMED CT concept]
- INFECTION [WHO-ART Preferred Term]
- Infection [ICNP subject]
- Infections and infestations [MedDRA Class]
- Infectious Disorder [NCIt concept]
- Infectious disease [LOINC component]
- Infectious disease [LOINC method]
- Infectious disease (disorder) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Infectious diseases [LOINC component]
- communicable disease, nos [SNOMED Notion]
- infectious disease, nos [SNOMED Notion]
- infectious diseases [CISMeF Querying Strategy]
- infectious diseases [MedlinePlus Topic]
- infectious disorder [Disease (Nov.)]
Validated automatic mappings to NTBT
- infectious disorder [Disease (Nov.)]

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