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Specific Pathogen-Free Organisms

"Specific Pathogen-Free Organisms" 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.

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Animals or humans raised in the absence of a particular disease-causing virus or other microorganism. Less frequently plants are cultivated pathogen-free.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Specific Pathogen-Free Organisms" by people in this website by year, and whether "Specific Pathogen-Free Organisms" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 14 publications over 11 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 2002 and 2012 and 2020
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