Glossary entry

German term or phrase:

Infektiologie

English translation:

Department of infectious diseases

Added to glossary by Margit Pehrsson (X)
Mar 3, 2002 11:54
22 yrs ago
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German term

Infektiologie

German to English Medical Medical: Health Care
Part of a heading:
Infektiologie, Klinische Mikrobiologie und Krankenhaushygiene - the name of a department at a hospital
Proposed translations (English)
4 +5 Infectious Diseases
5 infectology
4 infectiology
3 -1 epidemiology
Change log

Jun 7, 2006 14:47: Steffen Walter changed "Field (specific)" from "(none)" to "Medical: Health Care"

Proposed translations

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Infectious Diseases

If it's a department at a hospital, then it should be "Department of Infectious Diseases, Clinical Microbiology and Clinical Hygiene"

Examples of such Departments:

Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infections Diseases
health.wits.ac.za/microbiology/research.html

... Address: Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, The Queen Elizabeth ...
sites.netscape.net/davidigrove/homepage

Clinical Hygiene
www.dentalcare.com/soap/journals/dh_news/dhn/clinhyg/ch-ind...

Peer comment(s):

agree clare Burns (X)
12 mins
Thank you, Clare!
agree Chris Rowson (X) : Yes, I am really not convinced that infect(i)ology is used by native English speakers. Web references include "Colombian Associacion of Infectology" and such like.
2 hrs
Thanks!
agree Dr Janine Manuel BSc BHB MBChB
4 hrs
Thank you!
agree Barbara Schulten, MSc (OXON), DPSI
7 hrs
agree Dietrich Herrmann, MD, PhD, MBA : For a definition of the German term see the DGIO website at http://www.dgi-net.de/start.html
9 hrs
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13 mins

infectology

more than 2500 Google hits

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Note added at 2002-03-03 12:09:56 (GMT)
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clinical microbiology and hospital hygiene
would be my guess for the rest
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17 mins

infectiology

simply
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-1
19 mins

epidemiology

I think this is the English equivalent
Peer comment(s):

disagree Elvira Stoianov : the German equivalent of epidemilogy is Epidemiologie (see http://www.gesundheit.de/roche/ for a definition)
14 mins
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