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Entitled, Institute of Medicine Definition of Emerging Infections, this word slide presents the definition of emerging infections, composed in 1992, by the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), formerly called the Institute of Medicine (IoM). The definition reads, “New, reemerging, or drug-resistant infections, whose incidence in humans has increased within the past two decades, or whose incidence threatens to increase in the near future.”
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Content Provider(s): CDC/ National Academy of Medicine
Creation Date: 1997
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