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Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis

"Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis" 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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A method of disease prevention (abbreviated PrEP) which involves the administration of drugs to at-risk persons who have not been exposed to the disease-causing agent.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis" by people in this website by year, and whether "Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 102 publications over 10 distinct years, with a maximum of 21 publications in 2021
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