"Disease Outbreaks" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Sudden increase in the incidence of a disease. The concept includes EPIDEMICS and PANDEMICS.
| Descriptor ID |
D004196
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| MeSH Number(s) |
N06.850.290
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| Concept/Terms |
Disease Outbreaks- Disease Outbreaks
- Disease Outbreak
- Outbreak, Disease
- Outbreaks, Disease
- Outbreaks
- Infectious Disease Outbreaks
- Disease Outbreak, Infectious
- Disease Outbreaks, Infectious
- Infectious Disease Outbreak
- Outbreak, Infectious Disease
- Outbreaks, Infectious Disease
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Disease Outbreaks" by people in this website by year, and whether "Disease Outbreaks" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1995 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1997 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1998 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 1999 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 2000 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2001 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2002 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2003 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2004 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 2005 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 2006 | 6 | 6 | 12 |
| 2007 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2008 | 8 | 2 | 10 |
| 2009 | 5 | 4 | 9 |
| 2010 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2011 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2012 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2013 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2014 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2015 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 2016 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2017 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2018 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2019 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2020 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 2021 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2022 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2023 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2024 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Disease Outbreaks" by people in Profiles.
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Mpox Clinical Presentation, Diagnostic Approaches, and Treatment Strategies: A Review. JAMA. 2024 Nov 19; 332(19):1652-1662.
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Measles Outbreak Associated with a Migrant Shelter - Chicago, Illinois, February-May 2024. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2024 May 16; 73(19):424-429.
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Mpox and HIV-Collision of Two Diseases. Curr HIV/AIDS Rep. 2023 12; 20(6):440-450.
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Projecting the impact of an ebola virus outbreak on endangered mountain gorillas. Sci Rep. 2023 04 07; 13(1):5675.
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Human monkeypox virus infection in women and non-binary individuals during the 2022 outbreaks: a global case series. Lancet. 2022 12 03; 400(10367):1953-1965.
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Reconstruction of a large-scale outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 infection in Iceland informs vaccination strategies. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2022 Jun; 28(6):852-858.
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Applying the WHO-ICRC BEC course to train emergency and inpatient healthcare workers in Sierra Leone early in the COVID-19 outbreak. BMC Health Serv Res. 2022 Feb 14; 22(1):197.
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Multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2 in a University Outbreak After Spring Break - Chicago, Illinois, March-May 2021. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2021 Sep 03; 70(35):1195-1200.
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The Metrics Matter: Improving Comparisons of COVID-19 Outbreaks in Nursing Homes. J Am Med Dir Assoc. 2021 05; 22(5):955-959.e3.
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Quantifying asymptomatic infection and transmission of COVID-19 in New York City using observed cases, serology, and testing capacity. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 03 02; 118(9).