Qualifier English: | immunology | ||||
Qualifier Spanish: |
inmunología
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Qualifier Portuguese: | imunologia | ||||
Qualifier French: | immunologie | ||||
RDF Unique Identifier: | https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/Q000276 | ||||
Scope note: | Used for immunologic studies of tissues, organs, microorganisms, fungi, viruses, and animals. It includes immunologic aspects of diseases but not immunologic procedures used for diagnostic, preventive, or therapeutic purposes, for which "diagnosis", "prevention & control", or "therapy" are used. The concept is also used for chemicals as antigens or haptens. |
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Annotation: | subhead only; for "immunological aspects"; for substances as antigens or haptens; for antibodies to substances, organs or organisms; not for immunotherapy ( = /therapy), nor for immunologic prevention, as with vaccines ( = /prevention & control), nor for serodiagnosis ( = /diagnosis); see MeSH scope note in Introduction; indexing policy: Manual 19.8.37; DF: /immunol or /IM |
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Allowable Qualifiers: | No qualifiers | ||||
Online Note: | search policy: Online Manual; use: main heading/IM or IM (SH) or SUBS APPLY IM |
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History Note: | 66; used with Category B & C 1966-67; A, B & C 1968-69; A, B, C & F 1970-74; A, B, C & F3 1975-86; A, B, C, D, F3, AGING, CLIMACTERIC+, INFANT, NEWBORN+, PREGNANCY+, PREGNANCY, ANIMAL+, PUBERTY+ & PUERPERIUM+ 1987; A, B, C, D, F3, AGING, CLIMACTERIC+, INFANT, NEWBORN+, PREGNANCY+, PREGNANCY, ANIMAL+, PUBERTY+, PUERPERIUM+ & SMOKING 1988; A, B, C, D, F3, AGING, CLIMACTERIC+, INFANT, NEWBORN+, PREGNANCY+, PREGNANCY, ANIMAL+, PUBERTY+, PUERPERIUM+ & SMOKING+ 1989; A2-16, B, C, D1-24, F3 & G4-12 1990 forward |
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Entry Version: | IMMUNOL |
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Abbreviation: | IM | ||||
DeCS ID: | 22038 | ||||
Unique ID: | Q000276 | ||||
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): | Click here to access the VHL documents | ||||
Date Established: | 1966/01/01 | ||||
Date of Entry: | 1973/12/27 | ||||
Revision Date: | 2015/07/01 |
immunology
- Preferred
Concept UI |
M0030471 |
Scope note | Used for immunologic studies of tissues, organs, microorganisms, fungi, viruses, and animals. It includes immunologic aspects of diseases but not immunologic procedures used for diagnostic, preventive, or therapeutic purposes, for which "diagnosis", "prevention & control", or "therapy" are used. The concept is also used for chemicals as antigens or haptens. |
Preferred term | immunology |
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