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MeSH Heading: Bacterial Infections
Tree Number(s): C01.150.252
Unique ID: D001424
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001424
Annotation: general or unspecified; prefer specifics; many texts saying "sepsis" mean BACTERIAL INFECTIONS: check text
Scope Note: Infections by bacteria, general or unspecified.
Entry Version: BACT INFECT
Entry Term(s): Bacterial Disease; Bacterial Infection; Infection, Bacterial; Infections, Bacterial
Previous Indexing: Infection (1966-1971)
Public MeSH Note: 72
History Note: 72
Date Established: 1972/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2020/01/16

Allowable Qualifiers: blood (BL)

cerebrospinal fluid (CF)

chemically induced (CI)

classification (CL)

complications (CO)

congenital (CN)

diagnosis (DI)

diagnostic imaging (DG)

diet therapy (DH)

drug therapy (DT)

economics (EC)

embryology (EM)

enzymology (EN)

epidemiology (EP)

ethnology (EH)

etiology (ET)

genetics (GE)

history (HI)

immunology (IM)

metabolism (ME)

microbiology (MI)

mortality (MO)

nursing (NU)

parasitology (PS)

pathology (PA)

physiopathology (PP)

prevention & control (PC)

psychology (PX)

radiotherapy (RT)

rehabilitation (RH)

surgery (SU)

therapy (TH)

transmission (TM)

urine (UR)

veterinary (VE)

virology (VI)

Concept UI: M0002126
Scope Note: Infections by bacteria, general or unspecified.
Terms: Bacterial Infections Preferred Term
Term UI T004148
Date01/01/1999
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1972); Bacterial Disease
Term UI T000998309
Date11/20/2019
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2021); Bacterial Infection
Term UI T004145
Date10/20/1990
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1992); Infection, Bacterial
Term UI T004146
Date10/20/1990
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1992); Infections, Bacterial
Term UI T004147
Date10/20/1990
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1992)

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