MODE OF TRANSMISSION it
indicates the potential of the disease; conveyance of the agent to the host; it
can be by common source transmission, contact source, air-borne transmission.
There are four main routes of
transmission
- By Contact
Transmission
1. Direct contact ( person to person )
2. Indirect contact ( usually an inanimate object)
3. Droplet contact ( from coughing, sneezing, or
talking, or talking
by an infected person)
- By Vehicle
Route (
through contaminated items)
1. Food – salmonellosis
2. Water – shigellosis, legionellosis
3. Drugs – bacteremia resulting from infusion of a
contaminated
infusion product
4. Blood – hepatitis B,
C.
Airborne Transmission
1. Droplet of
nuclei
2. Dust particle
in the air containing the infectious
agent
3. Organisms shed into environment from skin, hair,
wounds or perineal
area.
D.
Vector borne Transmission,
arthropods such as flies, mosquitoes, ticks and others.
