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Descriptor English: Neglected Diseases
Descriptor Spanish: Enfermedades Desatendidas
Descriptor enfermedades desatendidas
Entry term(s) enfermedades descuidadas
enfermedades negligenciadas
Scope note: Enfermedades que cuentan con escasos recursos económicos y tienen un bajo reconocimiento nominal pero que constituyen cargas importantes en países menos desarrollados. La Orgazniación Mundial de la Salud ha designado seis enfermedades infecciosas tropicales como abandonadas en los países industrializados que son endémicas en muchos países en desarrollo (HELMINTIASIS, LEPRA, FILARIASIS LINFÁTICA, ONCOCERQUIASIS, ESQUISTOSOMIASIS y TRACOMA).
Descriptor Portuguese: Doenças Negligenciadas
Descriptor French: Maladies négligées
Entry term(s): Disease, Neglected
Diseases, Neglected
Neglected Disease
Tree number(s): C23.550.291.890
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D058069
Scope note: Diseases that are underfunded and have low name recognition but are major burdens in less developed countries. The World Health Organization has designated six tropical infectious diseases as being neglected in industrialized countries that are endemic in many developing countries (HELMINTHIASIS; LEPROSY; LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; and TRACHOMA).
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
UR urine
VE veterinary
VI virology
Previous Indexing: Rare Diseases (2003-2010)
Tropical Medicine (2002-2010)
Public MeSH Note: 2011
History Note: 2011
Related: Rare Diseases MeSH
DeCS ID: 54010
Unique ID: D058069
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Date Established: 2011/01/01
Date of Entry: 2010/06/25
Neglected Diseases - Preferred
Concept UI M0540687
Scope note Diseases that are underfunded and have low name recognition but are major burdens in less developed countries. The World Health Organization has designated six tropical infectious diseases as being neglected in industrialized countries that are endemic in many developing countries (HELMINTHIASIS; LEPROSY; LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; and TRACHOMA).
Preferred term Neglected Diseases
Entry term(s) Disease, Neglected
Diseases, Neglected
Neglected Disease



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