There are 2 ways that the fomites can be transmitted. These include direct and indirect transmission. Direct transmission occurs when there is physical contact between an infected person and a susceptible person. Indirect contact transmission occurs when there is no direct human-to-human contact. Contact occurs from a reservoir to contaminated surfaces or objects‚ or to vectors such as insects or animals. Direct contact infections spread when microorganisms pass from the infected person to the healthy
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blowing article that shows how every day of people’s lives they get germs from all the things they touch and how it can affect them. According to the author of this article‚ William Harris‚ he claims that when people come in contact with any array of fomites ‚they are surfaces that are flooded with bacteria‚ these surfaces would give people a bigger of a chance to get diseased
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by medical personnel. D) Only a result of surgery. E) Always caused by pathogenic bacteria. Answer: B 7) Mechanical transmission differs from biological transmission in that mechanical transmission A) Doesn’t require an arthropod. B) Involves fomites. C) Doesn’t involve specific diseases. D) Requires direct contact. E) Doesn’t work with noncommunicable diseases. Answer: C 4) The major significance of Koch’s work was that A) Microorganisms are present in a diseased animal. B) Diseases can be
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Experiment 11: Fomite Transmission Wesley Webster Student ID# 000258005 Western Governors University MLT 1 Dr. Kim Shahi and Dr. Heidi Atkinson September 3‚2013 Experiment 11: Fomite Transmission Elements Necessary to Spread Infection There are three elements necessary for the spread of infection. First there has to be a source of an infective organism. This source can be endogenous or exogenous. Endogenous sources of infection reside on or in the host’s body
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Pathogens have evolved and have various ways to transmit from one host to another. Transmission from one host to another is one way how microbes are able to survive in a long run and maintain their species survivability. If pathogens were not able to transmit‚ upon the death of the host‚ the microbes would not have any means to infect another host. Some pathogens have only one mean of transmitting whereas there are other pathogens that can be transmitted via many different methods. In general‚ there
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Role of a nurse in infection control In order for infection and disease to occur in an individual‚ a process involving 6 related components must occur. This process has been referred to as the chain of infection. The six steps or links in the chain are etiologic agent‚ reservoir‚ portal of exit‚ mode of transmission‚ portal of entry and susceptible host. To stop the spread of disease‚ one or more of these links must be broken. 1. Etiologic agent a. Metazoan – multicellular animals many
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random mutations that are beneficial are conserved in the species‚ previous exposure to antibiotics‚ and some bacteria are naturally transformable; meaning they can absorb the genomic material of other bacteria into their own. 4. What is a fomite? A fomite is an inanimate object (as a dish‚ toy‚ book‚ doorknob‚ or clothing) that may be contaminated with infectious organisms and serve in their
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transmission of an agent that carries the agent from a reservoir to a susceptible host. An organism that transmits the infection as a mosquito transmits the malaria protozoans. fomite - a physical object that serves to transmit an infectious agent from person to person. A comb infested with one or more head lice would be a fomite or the dust particles containing infectious cold virus that remain after droplets of infected saliva are coughed into the air. zoonosis - An infectious disease that is transmissible
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There were a multitude of theories‚ the two main ones being miasma and fomites. The theory of miasma was that yellow fever and other diseases were spreading because of rotting organic matter caused by the climate‚ such as chemicals in soil which caused what was known as “night air”. The theory of fomites which basically said that microorganisms would attach to non living objects or things‚ such as doorknobs‚ clothing‚ etc…‚ and that was
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COMMUNICABLE DISEASES Communicable diseases are illnesses that can be transmitted from one person to another. Some of the examples include; Gonorrhea Tuberculosis Malaria Meningitis Transmission is the passing of communicable diseases from an infected host individual or a con- specific (belonging to the same species) individual or group‚ regardless of whether the other individual was previously infected. MODES OF INFECTION The main modes of infection are categorized into
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