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Descriptor English: Communicable Period
Descriptor Spanish: Periodo de Transmisión
Descriptor período de transmisión
Scope note: Período durante el cual un agente infeccioso puede ser transmitido directa o indirectamente de una persona o animal a otra persona u otro animal. (Traducción libre del original: Material V - Gunn, S.W.A. Multilingual Dictionary of Disaster Medicine and International Relief, 1990)
Descriptor Portuguese: Período de Transmissibilidade
Descriptor French: Période de Transmission
Entry term(s): Contagious Period
Transmissible Period
Tree number(s): SP8.570.747.231.996.455.671
Scope note: Period during which an infectious agent can be transmitted directly or indirectly from one person or animal to another person or animal (Material V - Gunn, S.W.A. Multilingual Dictionary of Disaster Medicine and International Relief, 1990)
Allowable Qualifiers: No qualifiers
DeCS ID: 35008
Unique ID: DDCS035008
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Communicable Period - Preferred
Concept UI FD00060871
Scope note Period during which an infectious agent can be transmitted directly or indirectly from one person or animal to another person or animal (Material V - Gunn, S.W.A. Multilingual Dictionary of Disaster Medicine and International Relief, 1990)
Preferred term Communicable Period
Entry term(s) Contagious Period
Transmissible Period



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