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Carrier State

"Carrier State" 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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The condition of harboring an infective organism without manifesting symptoms of infection. The organism must be readily transmissible to another susceptible host.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Carrier State" by people in this website by year, and whether "Carrier State" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 35 publications over 20 distinct years, with a maximum of 6 publications in 2018
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