named reporting

The reporting of infected persons by name to public health departments, a standard practice for surveillance of certain infectious diseases—tuberculosis, syphilis, gonorrhoea—that pose a public health threat

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named reporting

Public health The reporting of infected persons by name to public health departments, a standard practice for surveillance of certain infectious diseases–TB, syphilis, gonorrhea, that pose a public health threat. Cf Anonymous testing.

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