| Descriptor in English: | Disease Eradication |
| Descriptor in Spanish: | Erradicación de la Enfermedad |
| Descriptor in Portuguese: | Erradicação de Doenças |
| Descriptor in French: | Éradication de maladie |
| Entry term(s): |
Disease Elimination Disease Eliminations Disease Eradications Elimination, Disease Eliminations, Disease Eradication, Disease Eradications, Disease |
| Tree number(s): |
N06.850.275 |
| Scope note: | Termination of all transmission of infection by global extermination of the infectious agent through surveillance and containment (From Porta, A Dictionary of Epidemiology, 5th ed). |
| Annotation: | coordinate with specific disease / prev |
| Allowable Qualifiers: |
EC economics HI history IS instrumentation LJ legislation & jurisprudence MT methods OG organization & administration SN statistics & numerical data ST standards TD trends |
| History Note: | 2012 |
| See also the descriptors: |
Communicable Disease Control
MeSH |
| DeCS UI: | 54858 |
| Descriptor UI: | D060740 |
| Date Established: | 2012/01/01 |
| Date of Entry: | 2011/06/24 |
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Disease Eradication
- Preferred
Disease Elimination
- Narrower
| Concept UI |
M0555244 |
| Scope note | Termination of all transmission of infection by global extermination of the infectious agent through surveillance and containment (From Porta, A Dictionary of Epidemiology, 5th ed). |
| Preferred term | Disease Eradication |
| Entry term(s) |
Disease Eradications Eradication, Disease Eradications, Disease |
| Concept UI |
M0556117 |
| Preferred term | Disease Elimination |
| Entry term(s) |
Disease Eliminations Elimination, Disease Eliminations, Disease |
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