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    Airborne transmission or aerosol transmission is transmission of an infectious disease through small particles suspended in the air. Infectious diseases...
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  • refers to the transmission of microorganisms directly from one individual to another by one or more of the following means: airborne transmission – very small...
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    stainless steel or plastic for several hours. Airborne precautions are likely effective in reducing transmission, while other precautions such as hand-washing...
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    small airborne particles containing the virus. Infected people exhale those particles as they breathe, talk, cough, sneeze, or sing. Transmission is more...
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    that could potentially affect airborne transmission and distribution. This is important, for the risk of aerosol transmission in poorly ventilated places...
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    2054674. S2CID 248406422. Morawska, Lidia; Cao, Junji (June 2020). "Airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2: The world should face the reality". Environment International...
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    particular, transmits infection effectively and appears to allow airborne transmission. In one incident, a person who vomited spread the infection across...
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    micro.54.1.567. PMID 11018138. S2CID 19944003. "Legionella - Causes and Transmission - Legionnaires". CDC. November 3, 2024. "Legionellosis (Legionnaires'...
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    Indirect transmission can occur by airborne transmission, by vehicles (including fomites), and by vectors.[citation needed] Airborne transmission is different...
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    small airborne particles containing the virus can remain suspended in the air and travel over longer distances, particularly indoors. Transmission can also...
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    of biofilms. Contact transmission is divided into two subgroups: direct-contact transmission and indirect-contact transmission. Alongside reducing vectors...
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    By contrast, a limited number of diseases can be spread through airborne transmission after the respiratory droplet dries out. We all continuously breathe...
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    Birmingham Medical School. Shooter concluded that the mode of transmission was most likely airborne through a poorly maintained service duct between the two...
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    entering the space (at least several hours, based on documented airborne transmission cases), and using personal protective equipment (including any protection...
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  • production and airborne transmission of respiratory infections. At times, healthcare workers concerned about their own risk of contracting airborne infections...
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  • following modes of transmission direct and indirect contact transmission, droplet transmission and airborne transmission. Transmission-based precautions...
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  • The Wells-Riley model is a simple model of the airborne transmission of infectious diseases, developed by William F. Wells and Richard L. Riley for tuberculosis...
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  • COVID-19's airborne transmission. Despite some evidence indicating aerosol spread, the focus of WHO was primarily on droplet transmission because almost...
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    acknowledge airborne transmission of COVID-19, after having previously claimed that the majority of infections occurred via "close contact, not airborne transmission"...
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    does remain useful in some circumstances to expel germs spread by airborne transmission, such as SARS-CoV-2. Some theories originate in, or are perpetuated...
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    transferred from one part of a building to another. Typically these are: Airborne transmission - a noise source in one room sends air pressure waves which induce...
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    routes and via aerosols (airborne transmission). Research into the molecular mechanisms underlying adenoviral transmission provide empirical evidence...
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    with another person. This may occur by either fecal–oral route, airborne transmission or small droplets containing the virus. Less commonly, the virus...
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    Ebola (section Transmission)
    actual risk of airborne transmission is low. A number of studies examining airborne transmission broadly concluded that transmission from pigs to primates...
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  • saliva, blood, and eventually becomes airborne; however, the player is immune to the latter mode of transmission. After being infected, individuals first...
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    such as through anal sex. It can also operate through droplet or airborne transmission through the toilet plume from contaminated toilets. The foundations...
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    J, Jimenez JL, Lakdawala SS, Tufekci Z, Marr LC (27 Aug 2021). "Airborne transmission of respiratory viruses". Science. 373 (6558). doi:10.1126/science...
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    of respiratory orifices (i.e. nose and mouth). This helps reduce airborne transmission of pathogens and other aerosolized contaminants between the wearer...
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    respiratory tract. The rarity of transmission on crowded buses and trains could be evidence that airborne transmission was not important. However, Fenner...
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  • the spread of measles. Wells first proposed the idea of airborne droplet nucleus transmission of tuberculosis in the 1930s. He demonstrated that rabbits...
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