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Descriptor English: Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Descriptor Spanish: Enfermedades de Transmisión Sexual
Descriptor enfermedades de transmisión sexual
Entry term(s) ETS
enfermedades venéreas
infecciones de transmisión sexual
Scope note: Enfermedades que se producen o propagan por contacto sexual.
Descriptor Portuguese: Infecções Sexualmente Transmissíveis
Descriptor French: Maladies sexuellement transmissibles
Entry term(s): Disease, Sexually Transmitted
Disease, Venereal
Diseases, Sexually Transmitted
Diseases, Venereal
Infection, Sexually Transmitted
Infections, Sexually Transmitted
STDs
STI
STIs
Sexually Transmitted Disease
Sexually Transmitted Infection
Sexually Transmitted Infections
Transmitted Infection, Sexually
Transmitted Infections, Sexually
Venereal Disease
Venereal Diseases
Tree number(s): C01.221.812
C01.778
C12.100.937
C23.550.291.531.937
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D012749
Scope note: Diseases due to or propagated by sexual contact.
Annotation: general or unspecified; prefer specifics
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
CN congenital
CO complications
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EH ethnology
EM embryology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
RT radiotherapy
SU surgery
TH therapy
TM transmission
UR urine
VE veterinary
VI virology
Public MeSH Note: 87; was VENEREAL DISEASES 1963-86
Online Note: use SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES to search VENEREAL DISEASES 1966-86
History Note: 87; was VENEREAL DISEASES 1963-86
Entry Version: SEX TRANSM DIS
DeCS ID: 24326
Unique ID: D012749
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1987/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2015/06/05
Sexually Transmitted Diseases - Preferred
Concept UI M0019758
Scope note Diseases due to or propagated by sexual contact.
Preferred term Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Entry term(s) Disease, Sexually Transmitted
Disease, Venereal
Diseases, Sexually Transmitted
Diseases, Venereal
Infection, Sexually Transmitted
Infections, Sexually Transmitted
STDs
STI
STIs
Sexually Transmitted Disease
Sexually Transmitted Infection
Sexually Transmitted Infections
Transmitted Infection, Sexually
Transmitted Infections, Sexually
Venereal Disease
Venereal Diseases



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