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Infection Control

"Infection Control" 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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Programs of disease surveillance, generally within health care facilities, designed to investigate, prevent, and control the spread of infections and their causative microorganisms.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Infection Control" by people in this website by year, and whether "Infection Control" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 80 publications over 20 distinct years, with a maximum of 25 publications in 2020
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