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Gonorrhea

"Gonorrhea" 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.

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Acute infectious disease characterized by primary invasion of the urogenital tract. The etiologic agent, NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE, was isolated by Neisser in 1879.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Gonorrhea" by people in this website by year, and whether "Gonorrhea" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 17 publications over 14 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 2008 and 2014 and 2022
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