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Descriptor English: Reinfection
Descriptor Spanish: Reinfección
Descriptor reinfección
Entry term(s) infección recurrente
Scope note: Infección por el mismo agente infeccioso después de una recuperación. La reinfección puede ser debida a una cepa diferente o a la misma cepa.
Descriptor Portuguese: Reinfecção
Descriptor French: Réinfection
Entry term(s): Infection, Recurrent
Re infection
Re-infection
Re-infections
Recurrent Infection
Recurrent Infections
Reinfections
Tree number(s): C23.550.291.937.250
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000084063
Scope note: Infection by the same infectious agent following a recovery. Reinfection may be by a different strain or the same strain.
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
Previous Indexing: Recurrence (1986-2020)
Public MeSH Note: 2021
History Note: 2021
Related: Latent Infection MeSH
DeCS ID: 59407
Unique ID: D000084063
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 2021/01/01
Date of Entry: 2020/07/07
Revision Date: 2020/05/27
Reinfection - Preferred
Concept UI M000681309
Scope note Infection by the same infectious agent following a recovery. Reinfection may be by a different strain or the same strain.
Preferred term Reinfection
Entry term(s) Re infection
Re-infection
Re-infections
Reinfections
Recurrent Infection - Narrower
Concept UI M000681322
Scope note Infection by the same infectious agent following a recovery. Reinfection may be by a different strain or the same strain.
Scope note Infection by the same infectious agent following a recovery. Reinfection may be by a different strain or the same strain.
Preferred term Recurrent Infection
Entry term(s) Infection, Recurrent
Recurrent Infections



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