Airborne Route of Cross-Infection

Epidemiology of airborne infection.

In the perspective of the past 100 years the concept of airborne infection has had a rather turbulent history.' Interest in it, on the part of scientists and the public, has swung in the extreme. Prevailing attitudes toward the importance of airborne infection have often been stronger, either pro or con, than the evidence at hand has justified. Undoubtedly we are in such a phase right now with ...

Epidemiology of airborne staphylococcal infection.

INTRODUCTION ................................................................ Material Reviewed.......................................................... DISPERSAL OF STAPHYLOCOCCI INTO THE AIR ....................................... Nose and Skin Carriers...................................................... Mechanism ofDispersal.................................................... Frequency an...

Airborne Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria: Hospital Indoor Air Pollution and the Challenge of Nosocomial Infection

Route of Infection in Melioidosis

patients with SARS and upper respiratory symptoms might be coinfected with other respiratory viruses and become superspreaders. Interestingly, the report on a SARS superspreading event in Hong Kong explicitly states that the superspreader had presented with a “runny nose” (in addition to fever, cough, and malaise) (3). Therefore, upper respiratory symptoms might be a marker for highly infectiou...

Airborne Disease Infection Risk Modeling

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