| 词汇 | fomite |
| 释义 | fomite noun[ C ] medical specializeduk /ˈfəʊ.maɪt/ us /ˈfoʊ.maɪt/ a physical object that is not an animal or plant that can spread a disease to a living creature: （本身非动植物，但可将疾病传播给生物的）病媒，污染物 While a tie helps to make a doctor look professional, the survey concluded that it is a "fomite" - an inanimate object capable of spreading infection.虽然领带让医生看上去更专业，但是这项调查的结论是领带是一种“病媒“，即能够传播感染的无生命物体。 The mode of transmission of the disease is from finger or fomite to eye.这种疾病的传播方式是从手指或污染物到眼睛。 It is not known whether transmission occurred by direct transfer of body fluids from one person to the other (eg droplet spread), or whether a contaminated fomite (eg a shared drinking container) was responsible. Respiratory transmission may occur through exposure to vomit or fomite (a contaminated object). Many common objects are fomites, which can sustain a pathogen until a person comes in contact with it. Because of the potential for fomite transmission, some specialists recommend that people who are severely immuno-compromised should not share a room with a patient with cryptosporidiosis. Passing on illness & causing disease aerosolize avirulent communicability community transmission contact tracer contagious epidemic fester infect interepidemic interpandemic mediastinum non-communicable non-infected spreader super-spreader transferable transmissibility transmissible transmit |
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