infectiology

English

Alternative forms

• infectology

Etymology

From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting New Latin combining forms, from infection +‎ -ology; being ISV, the word is cognate with French infectiologie, but in English the usual name of the medical specialty is infectious disease or infectious diseases.

Noun

infectiology (uncountable)

1. The study of infection
   • 2015 September 24, “Individual Monitoring of Immune Response in Atlantic Salmon Salmo salar following Experimental Infection with Infectious Salmon Anaemia Virus (ISAV)”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     We describe here a novel approach to infectiology for salmonid fish where blood samples are collected repeatedly in a small group of PIT-tagged animals.

Derived terms

• infectiologic / infectologic
• infectiological / infectological
• infectiologist / infectologist

Related terms

• infectious disease / infectious diseases (which is the standard collocation naming the medical specialty in English)

Translations

Translations

• Czech: infektologie (cs) f
• French: infectiologie (fr) f / infectologie f
• German: Infektiologie (de)
• Hungarian: infektológia (hu), fertőzéstan
• Slovak: infektológia f

Further reading

• infectology, infectiology at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.