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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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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Rhinovirus (section Transmission)
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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Retrieved 14 August 2024. Morawska, Lidia; Cao, Junji (June 2020). "Airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2: The world should face the reality". Environment International...
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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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Legionella (section Airborne transmission)
can travel at least 6 km from its source by airborne spread. It was previously believed that transmission of the bacterium was restricted to much shorter...
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Natural reservoir (section Disease transmission)
Indirect transmission can occur by airborne transmission, by vehicles (including fomites), and by vectors.[citation needed] Airborne transmission is different...
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Norovirus (section Transmission)
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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COVID-19 (section Transmission)
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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Fomite (redirect from Fomite transmission)
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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following modes of transmission direct and indirect contact transmission, droplet transmission and airborne transmission. Transmission-based precautions...
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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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Respiratory droplet (redirect from Respiratory droplet transmission)
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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Hospital-acquired infection (section Transmission)
of biofilms. Contact transmission is divided into two subgroups: direct-contact transmission and indirect-contact transmission. Alongside reducing vectors...
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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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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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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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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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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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all disease was transmitted through direct contact, rather than airborne transmission. During his time with the Commission on Acute Respiratory Diseases...
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Adenoviridae (section Transmission)
routes and via aerosols (airborne transmission). Research into the molecular mechanisms underlying adenoviral transmission provide empirical evidence...
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Parvovirus B19 (section Transmission)
Seema S.; Tufekci, Zeynep; Marr, Linsey C. (27 August 2021). "Airborne transmission of respiratory viruses". Science. 373 (6558): eabd9149. doi:10.1126/science...
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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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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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saliva, blood, and eventually airborne water droplets; however, the player is immune to the latter mode of transmission. After being infected, individuals...
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research in the field of aerobiology and his pioneering work on the airborne transmission of respiratory viruses such as SARS-CoV-2. "Donald Milton". University...
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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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Smallpox (redirect from Smallpox transmission)
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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Fecal–oral route (redirect from Fecal-oral transmission)
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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