Quarantine (disambiguation)

Quarantine is a medical term for the act of keeping an object in enforced isolation for a period of time to limit or prevent the spread of disease or infection.

Quarantine may also refer to:

Medicine and disease

  • Cordon sanitaire, isolation of a geographic region to prevent transmission of disease beyond the region
  • Isolation (health care), isolation of infected to prevent transmission of disease
  • Biocontainment, isolation of medical samples of infected tissues and disease agents

Government and law

Films

Literature

Music

Television

Other uses

See also

  • All pages with titles containing quarantine or quarantines
  • All pages with titles beginning with Quarantine
  • Sanitorium, medical isolation facility
  • Biosafety level
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