fomites in a sentence

1. Vectors have included hands, fomites, air, water, and food 288, 289.

2. Others are transferred from the environment, water and inanimate objects (fomites).

3. This will minimize the transmission of the organism through fomites (inanimate objects).

4. Items which assist disease transmission are called fomites (singular: fomes, Latin for touchwood).

5. Previous studies, however, have shown that viruses and bacteria transfer similarly from fomites (objects) to fingers.

6. It can hapen through direct person-to-person contact or by so-called "fomites (toys or other surfaces contaminated by stool).

7. Gardeners due to regular contact with soil and other manual laborers through inanimate objects (fomites) contaminated with soil.

8. the other is indirect transmission in which people inadvertently infect themselves after touching contaminated surfaces, sometimes called“fomites.”.

9. It may get on to your hands when you touch contaminated surfaces and other inanimate objects (fomites) that a person who has the flu previously touched.

10. However, the common method of spread in these areas is through food and water but can also occur through droplet spread, direct contact, fomites and vectors.

11. Since the virus is is inactivated at room temperature or with drying, it is rarely spread through fomites (contaminated objects with which an infected person has made contact).

12. The effectiveness of biosecurity methods to mitigate the transmission of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) via farm personnel or contaminated fomites is poorly understood.

13. Once contaminated, fomites may carry microbes for few minutes or several weeks, depending on the type of the microbe and certain circumstances, like air humidity and temperature.

14. The virus is acquired from inhalation, although it can remain viable in fomites for about a week and may be transmitted directly via saliva, respiratory secretions and vesicular fluid.[1]

15. A member of the bacterial family, Enterobacteriaceae Salmonella is spread either directly or indirectly by fecal-oral contamination among individuals, and between species by means of ingestion of the organism in food or water or by contact with contaminated objects called fomites.1