Community-Acquired Infections
"Community-Acquired Infections" 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.
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.
| Descriptor ID |
D017714
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C01.539.234
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| Concept/Terms |
Community-Acquired Infections- Community-Acquired Infections
- Community Acquired Infections
- Infections, Community-Acquired
- Community-Acquired Infection
- Infection, Community-Acquired
- Infections, Community Acquired
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Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Community-Acquired Infections".
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Community-Acquired Infections" by people in this website by year, and whether "Community-Acquired Infections" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1995 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 1996 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1997 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1999 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2001 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2002 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2004 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 2005 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2006 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2007 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2008 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2010 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2011 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 2012 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2013 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| 2014 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2015 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2016 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2017 | 5 | 4 | 9 |
| 2018 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 6 | 1 | 7 |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2024 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Community-Acquired Infections" by people in Profiles.
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Cohort profile: the potentially preventable burden of community-acquired pneumonia in South African adults in the era of widespread PCV13 immunisation and antiretroviral therapy roll-out, before and during the COVID-19 pandemic - the multicentre, multimethod PotPrev Study. BMJ Open. 2024 12 20; 14(12):e080553.
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Smoking, Alcohol Use, Diabetes Mellitus, and Metabolic Syndrome as Risk Factors for Community-Acquired Pneumonia. Clin Chest Med. 2025 Mar; 46(1):93-104.
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Severe community-acquired pneumonia at a tertiary academic hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa. Respir Med. 2024 Nov-Dec; 234:107823.
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Nanofluidic qPCR unable to detect and serotype Streptococcus pneumoniae in urine samples of hospitalized South African patients with community-acquired pneumonia. Sci Rep. 2023 12 04; 13(1):21332.
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The Global Burden of Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Adults, Encompassing Invasive Pneumococcal Disease and the Prevalence of Its Associated Cardiovascular Events, with a Focus on Pneumolysin and Macrolide Antibiotics in Pathogenesis and Therapy. Int J Mol Sci. 2023 Jul 03; 24(13).
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Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste. Chest. 2021 03; 159(3):917-919.
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A pharmacist-led prospective antibiotic stewardship intervention improves compliance to community-acquired pneumonia guidelines in 39 public and private hospitals across South Africa. Int J Antimicrob Agents. 2020 Dec; 56(6):106189.
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Platelets and Their Role in the Pathogenesis of Cardiovascular Events in Patients With Community-Acquired Pneumonia. Front Immunol. 2020; 11:577303.
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International Perspective on the New 2019 American Thoracic Society/Infectious Diseases Society of America Community-Acquired Pneumonia Guideline: A Critical Appraisal by a Global Expert Panel. Chest. 2020 11; 158(5):1912-1918.
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Community-Acquired Pneumonia: A Global Perspective. Semin Respir Crit Care Med. 2020 Aug; 41(4):453-454.