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Descriptor English: Chain of Infection
Descriptor Spanish: Cadena de Infección
Descriptor cadena de infección
Scope note: Secuencia de transmisión de las infecciones desde que los agentes infecciosos abandonan los RESERVORIOS DE ENFERMEDADES o el huésped a través de una puerta de salida, son transportados por algún mecanismo de transmisión y entran a través de una puerta de entrada para infectar a un huésped susceptible.
Descriptor Portuguese: Cadeia de Infecção
Descriptor French: Chaîne d'infection
Entry term(s): Infection Chain
Tree number(s): N06.850.520.203
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000086003
Scope note: A sequence of infection transmission from infectious agent leaving DISEASE RESERVOIR or host through a portal of exit, conveyed by some mode of transmission, and entering through a portal of entry to infect a susceptible host.
Allowable Qualifiers: PC prevention & control
VE veterinary
Previous Indexing: Epidemiology (2002-2020)
Public MeSH Note: 2021
History Note: 2021
DeCS ID: 59498
Unique ID: D000086003
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: 2020/06/17
Chain of Infection - Preferred
Concept UI M000731654
Scope note A sequence of infection transmission from infectious agent leaving DISEASE RESERVOIR or host through a portal of exit, conveyed by some mode of transmission, and entering through a portal of entry to infect a susceptible host.
Preferred term Chain of Infection
Entry term(s) Infection Chain



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