 Community-Acquired Infections
"Community-Acquired Infections" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Any infection acquired in the community, that is, contrasted with those acquired in a health care facility (CROSS INFECTION). An infection would be classified as community-acquired if the patient had not recently been in a health care facility or been in contact with someone who had been recently in a health care facility.
| Descriptor ID |
D017714
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C01.539.234
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| Concept/Terms |
Community-Acquired Infections- Community-Acquired Infections
- Community Acquired Infections
- Infections, Community-Acquired
- Community-Acquired Infection
- Infection, Community-Acquired
- Infections, Community Acquired
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Community-Acquired Infections" by people in this website by year, and whether "Community-Acquired Infections" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 1999 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Community-Acquired Infections" by people in Profiles.
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Chatterjee S, Carnahan RM, Chen H, Holmes HM, Johnson ML, Aparasu RR. Anticholinergic Medication Use and Risk of Pneumonia in Elderly Adults: A Nested Case-Control Study. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2016 Feb; 64(2):394-400.
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Shah DN, Bhatt NS, Welch JK, Koo HL, Garey KW. Defining acute renal dysfunction as a criterion for the severity of Clostridium difficile infection in patients with community-onset vs hospital-onset infection. J Hosp Infect. 2013 Apr; 83(4):294-9.
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Price MF, Dao-Tran T, Garey KW, Graham G, Gentry LO, Dhungana L, Dupont HL. Epidemiology and incidence of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhoea diagnosed upon admission to a university hospital. J Hosp Infect. 2007 Jan; 65(1):42-6.
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Garey KW, Amsden GW. Intravenous azithromycin. Ann Pharmacother. 1999 Feb; 33(2):218-28.
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