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Descriptor English: Asepsis
Descriptor Spanish: Asepsia
Descriptor asepsia
Scope note: Prevención del acceso por parte de organismos infecciosos al lugar de una infección potencial.
Descriptor Portuguese: Assepsia
Descriptor French: Asepsie
Tree number(s): N06.850.780.200.450.150.160
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001207
Scope note: The prevention of access by infecting organisms to the locus of potential infection.
Annotation: differentiate from ANTISEPSIS: ANTISEPSIS is the destruction of pathogens, ASEPSIS is the prev of their invasion
Allowable Qualifiers: HI history
IS instrumentation
MT methods
ST standards
Public MeSH Note: 91; was see under ANTISEPSIS 1975-90
Online Note: search ANTISEPSIS 1966-74
History Note: 91(75); was see under ANTISEPSIS 1975-90
DeCS ID: 27923
Unique ID: D001207
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1991/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2008/07/08
Asepsis - Preferred
Concept UI M0001804
Scope note The prevention of access by infecting organisms to the locus of potential infection.
Preferred term Asepsis



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