Types Of Transmission

Question 1

What are the 9 types of transmission

Answer 1

Direct contact
Indirect contact
Inhalation
Ingestion
Inoculation
Fomite
Vectors
Hands
Air

Question 2

How does direct contact spread disease

Answer 2

Via the skin, contaminated body secretions. Also stis

Question 3

How does indirect contact spread disease

Answer 3

Intermediate carrier involved in the spread of disease e.g. sharing a towel

Question 4

How does inhalation transmit disease

Answer 4

Exhaled by infectious person, inhaled by another e.g. influenza

Question 5

How does ingestion spread disease

Answer 5

Organisms capable of infecting the gastrointestinal tract are ingested e.g. salmonella

Question 6

How does inoculation spread disease

Answer 6

Follows a sharps injury and is inoculated into the blood stream

Question 7

How does fomite spread disease

Answer 7

Infected organism contaminates object and then transmits to another person e.g. resusitaion equipment

Question 8

How do vectors spread disease

Answer 8

An animal passively transmits pathogenic microbes e.g. common housefly

Question 9

How do hands spread disease

Answer 9

Cross contamination by carrying microbes to other body sites and equipment