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MeSH Heading: Skin Diseases, Infectious
Tree Number(s): C01.800; C17.800.838
Unique ID: D012874
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D012874
Annotation: general or unspecified; prefer specifics; coordinate with specific infectious disease + site or with precoordinated site terms
Scope Note: Skin diseases caused by bacteria, fungi, parasites, or viruses.
Entry Version: SKIN DIS INFECT
Entry Term(s): Infectious Skin Diseases
Previous Indexing: specific skin disease (1966-1967)
Public MeSH Note: 68
History Note: 68
Date Introduced: 1968/01/01
Last Updated: 2019/06/17

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)

Skin Diseases, Infectious MeSH Descriptor Data 2026