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MeSH Heading: Community-Acquired Infections
Tree Number(s): C01.234
Unique ID: D017714
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D017714
Annotation: contrasted with hospital- or other health facil-acquired ( = CROSS INFECTION); IM GEN only; coord NIM with specific community-acquired infect (IM), if discussed
Scope Note: Any infection acquired in the community, that is, contrasted with those acquired in a health care facility (CROSS INFECTION). An infection would be classified as community-acquired if the patient had not recently been in a health care facility or been in contact with someone who had been recently in a health care facility.
Entry Version: COMMUNITY ACQUIRED INFECT
Entry Term(s): Community Acquired Infection; Community-Acquired Infection; Infections, Community-Acquired
See Also: Cross Infection
Public MeSH Note: 94
History Note: 94
Date Established: 1994/01/01
Date of Entry: 1993/06/18
Revision Date: 2020/05/27

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: M0026784
Scope Note: Any infection acquired in the community, that is, contrasted with those acquired in a health care facility (CROSS INFECTION). An infection would be classified as community-acquired if the patient had not recently been in a health care facility or been in contact with someone who had been recently in a health care facility.
Terms: Community-Acquired Infections Preferred Term
Term UI T052987
Date01/01/1999
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1994); Community Acquired Infection
Term UI T000997566
Date11/19/2019
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2021); Community-Acquired Infection
Term UI T000997567
Date11/19/2019
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2021); Infections, Community-Acquired
Term UI T052986
Date09/10/1992
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1994)

Community-Acquired Infections MeSH Descriptor Data 2025