 Epidemics
"Epidemics" 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.
Sudden outbreaks of a disease in a country or region not previously recognized in that area, or a rapid increase in the number of new cases of a previous existing endemic disease. Epidemics can also refer to outbreaks of disease in animal or plant populations.
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D058872
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| MeSH Number(s) |
N06.850.290.200
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Epidemics" by people in UAMS Profiles by year, and whether "Epidemics" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2015 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2013 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Epidemics" by people in Profiles over the past ten years.
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Dayer LE, Painter JT, McCain K, King J, Cullen J, Foster HR. A recent history of opioid use in the US: Three decades of change. Subst Use Misuse. 2019; 54(2):331-339.
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Hogan WR, Wagner MM, Brochhausen M, Levander J, Brown ST, Millett N, DePasse J, Hanna J. The Apollo Structured Vocabulary: an OWL2 ontology of phenomena in infectious disease epidemiology and population biology for use in epidemic simulation. J Biomed Semantics. 2016 Aug 18; 7:50.
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Yamada S, Riklon S, Maskarinec GG. Ethical Responsibility for the Social Production of Tuberculosis. J Bioeth Inq. 2016 Mar; 13(1):57-64.
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Bartter T. Electronic Cigarettes: Aggregate Harm. Ann Intern Med. 2015 Jul 07; 163(1):59-60.
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Bailey MS, Beaton K, Bowley D, Eardley W, Hunt P, Johnson S, Round J, Tarmey NT, Williams A. Bending the curve: force health protection during the insertion phase of the Ebola outbreak response. J R Army Med Corps. 2016 Jun; 162(3):191-7.
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Wagner MM, Levander JD, Brown S, Hogan WR, Millett N, Hanna J. Apollo: giving application developers a single point of access to public health models using structured vocabularies and Web services. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2013; 2013:1415-24.
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Green TC, Zaller N, Palacios WR, Bowman SE, Ray M, Heimer R, Case P. Law enforcement attitudes toward overdose prevention and response. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2013 Dec 01; 133(2):677-84.
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Dresler C. The changing epidemic of lung cancer and occupational and environmental risk factors. Thorac Surg Clin. 2013 May; 23(2):113-22.
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Dildy DW. Distracted driving: a neglected epidemic. J Ark Med Soc. 2012 Oct; 109(5):86-8.
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