Disease transmission is the way that an infectious disease or pathogen is "passed on" or "communicated" from one individual to another in a population of humans, or in groups of other animals. Disease can be transmitted in two ways: This false-colored electron micrograph shows a malaria sporozoite migrating through the midgut epithelia. ... A pathogen or infectious agent is a biological agent that causes disease or illness to its host. ...
Horizontal disease transmission – from one individual to another in the same generation (piers in the same age group).[1] Horizontal transmission can occur by either direct contact (licking, touching, biting), or indirect contact (vectors or fomites that allow the transmission of disease without physical contact).[2]
Vertical disease transmission – passing a disease causing agent vertically from parent to offspring. Typically the mother transmits the disease by means of bodily fluid, and sometimes breast milk.[1]
The word vector means carrier in Latin; it is derived from the Latin verb vehere, which means to carry. ...
In epidemiology, an epidemic (from [[Latin language] epi- upon + demos people) is a disease that appears as new cases in a given human population, during a given period, at a rate that substantially exceeds what is expected, based on recent experience (the number of new cases in the population during...
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^ ab Horizontal Disease Transmission, online-medical-dictionary.org
^Routes of transmission of infectious diseases agents
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