Mesh term Communicable Diseases
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Description
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.Browse to child terms:
Communicable Diseases, Emerging
Communicable Diseases, Imported
Waterborne Diseases
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