An illness caused by an infectious agent or its toxins that occurs through the direct or indirect transmission of the infectious agent or its products from an infected individual or via an animal, vector or the inanimate environment to a susceptible animal or human host
Identification of those persons (or animals) who have had such an association with an infected person, animal, or contaminated environment as to have had the opportunity to acquire the infection. Contact tracing is a generally accepted method for the control of sexually transmitted diseases
Communicable Disease Control -- Congresses : Vector-borne diseases : understanding the environmental, human health, and ecological connections : workshop summary / rapporteurs, Stanley M. Lemon [and others] ; Forum on Microbial Threats, Board on Global Health, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies
Communicable Disease Control -- United States : Initial guidance for an update of the National Vaccine Plan : a letter report to the National Vaccine Program Office / Committee on the Review of Priorities in the National Vaccine Plan, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies
Communicable diseases -- Africa : Socio-Cultural Dimensions of Emerging Infectious Diseases in Africa : an Indigenous Response to Deadly Epidemics / Godfrey B. Tangwa [and 3 others], editors
Communicable Diseases -- Africa, Northern : Infectious ideas : contagion in premodern Islamic and Christian thought in the Western Mediterranean / Justin K. Stearns
Communicable diseases -- Africa, West -- Prevention : Strengthening post-Ebola health systems : from response to resilience in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone / Ramesh Govindaraj, Christopher H. Herbst, and John Paul Clark, editors
