Descriptor English: | Neglected Diseases | ||||||
Descriptor Spanish: |
Enfermedades Desatendidas
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Descriptor Portuguese: | Doenças Negligenciadas | ||||||
Descriptor French: | Maladies négligées | ||||||
Entry term(s): |
Disease, Neglected Diseases, Neglected Neglected Disease |
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Tree number(s): |
C23.550.291.890 |
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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). |
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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 |
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Previous Indexing: |
Rare Diseases (2003-2010) Tropical Medicine (2002-2010) |
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Public MeSH Note: | 2011 |
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History Note: | 2011 |
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Related: |
Rare Diseases
MeSH | ||||||
DeCS ID: | 54010 | ||||||
Unique ID: | D058069 | ||||||
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): | Click here to access the VHL documents | ||||||
Date Established: | 2011/01/01 | ||||||
Date of Entry: | 2010/06/25 |
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Neglected Diseases
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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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