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Descriptor English:   Community-Acquired Infections 
Descriptor Spanish:   Infecciones Comunitarias Adquiridas 
Descriptor Portuguese:   Infecções Comunitárias Adquiridas 
Tree Number:   C01.539.234
Definition English:   Any infection acquired in the community, that is, contrasted with those acquired in a health care facility (CROSS INFECTION). An infection would be classified as community-acquired if the patient had not recently been in a health care facility or been in contact with someone who had been recently in a health care facility. 
Indexing Annotation English:   contrasted with hospital- or other health facil-acquired ( = CROSS INFECTION); IM GEN only; coord NIM with specific community-acquired infect (IM), if discussed
See Related English:   Cross Infection
 
History Note English:   94 
Allowable Qualifiers English:  
blood cerebrospinal fluid
chemically induced classification
congenital complications
diet therapy diagnosis
drug therapy economics
ethnology embryology
enzymology epidemiology
etiology genetics
history immunology
metabolism microbiology
mortality nursing
pathology prevention & control
physiopathology parasitology
psychology radiography
rehabilitation radionuclide imaging
radiotherapy surgery
therapy transmission
urine ultrasonography
veterinary virology
Record Number:   31549 
Unique Identifier:   D017714 

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