Infectious agents suspended in air in dust or droplets that are suspended in air for long periods of time over great distances.

Airborne Transmission of Infection

Agent spread through food, water, biologic items/fluids, and fomites that passively carry a pathogen or in which a pathogen actively grows or multiplies.

Vehicles Transmission of Infection

The infectious agent carried and spread by organisms such as mosquitos, fleas, and ticks. The pathogen can be merely carried by the vector or can undergo a biologic process by the vector before being transmitted.

Vectors Transmission of Infection

- Airborne Transmission of Infection
- Vehicles Transmission of Infection
- Vectors Transmission of Infection


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Infectious agent is transferred from a reservoir to a susceptible host through airborne spread, vehicles, or vectors.

Indirect Transmission of Infection

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (n.d.). Centers for Disease control and Prevention. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. https://www.cdc.gov/. 

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