Preferred label
Communicable diseases
Alternative labels
Contagious diseases
Epidemics
Infectious diseases
Pestilences
Broader term
Diseases
Narrower terms
AIDS (Disease)
Cholera
Hookworm disease
Influenza
Leprosy
Malaria
Measles
Plague
Pneumonia
Poliomyelitis
Rabies
Sexually transmitted diseases
Smallpox
Trench mouth
Tuberculosis
Typhoid fever
Typhus fever
Yellow fever
Related terms
Antitoxins
Quarantines
Vaccinations
Scope note
Illnesses caused by living beings (both microscopic or submicroscopic, such as viruses, bacteria, and protozoa, and visible, such as certain disease-producing mites and worms) that invade the body.
Change note
Formerly TGMI term.