HOW INFECTION CAN BE TRANSIMITTED??

Infection
transmission can take place via many potential routes

1.    
Droplet contact also known as the
respiratory route and the resultant infection can be termed airborne disease.
If the infected person coughs or sneezes on another person the microorganisms
suspended in warm, moist droplets may enter the body through the nose, mouth or
eye surface.

2.    
Fecal-oral transmission: Wherein
foodstuffs or water become contaminated (by people not washing their hands
before preparing food or untreated sewage being released into a drinking water
supply) and the people who eat and drink them become infected. Common
fecal-oral transmitted pathogens include vibrio cholera, giardia species,
rotaviruses, endameba histolytica, Escherichia coli and tape worms. Most of these
pathogens cause gastroenteritis.

3.    
Sexual transmission with the resulting
disease called sexual transmitted diseases

4.    
Oral transmission diseases that are
transmitted primarily by oral means may be caught through direct oral contact
such as kissing or by indirect contact such as by sharing a drinking glass or a
cigarette.

5.    
Transmission by direct contact: some
diseases that are transmitted by direct contact include athletes’ foot,
impetigo and warts.

6.    
Vehicle transmission: transmission by an
in animate reservoir (food, water, soil).

7.    
Vertical transmission: directly from the
mother to an embryo, fetus or baby during pregnancy or child birth. It can
occur as a result of a pre-existing infection or one acquired during pregnancy.

8.    
Lactogenic transmission: due to medication
procedures such as injection or transplantation of infected material.

9.    
Vector-borne transmission: transmitted by
a vector, which is an organism that does not cause disease itself but that
transmit infection by conveying pathogens from one host to another.

PREVENTION

Techniques like hand
washing, wearing gowns and wearing face masks can help prevent infections from
being passed from one person to another. Aseptic techniques were introduced in medicine
and surgery in the late 19th century and greatly reduced the incidence of infections
caused by surgery. Frequent hand washing remains the most important defense
against the spread of unwanted organisms.