Aerogenic transmission

As airborne transmission from a is a source of infection outbound delivery erregerhältiger suspended , their transport through the air and the subsequent taken by another host referred.

Pathogens can be transmitted via droplets or droplet nuclei, with airborne infection only referring to the transmission through droplet nuclei.

• Droplets , see droplet transfer
• Aerosols or droplet nuclei, see droplet infection

Spread through the air:

• Pollutants and warfare agents , see contamination
• Pollen
• measles
• chickenpox
• Influenza
• SARS-CoV-2

See also

Bioaerosol

Individual evidence

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2. ^ ^{A b} Ines Kappstein: Nosocomial Infections: Prevention - Laboratory Diagnostics - Antimicrobial Therapy. Thieme Verlag 2009, ISBN 978-3131484741 , p. 47.
3. ↑ https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/Infekt/EpidBull/Merkblaetter/Ratgeber_Morien.html#doc2374536bodyText5
4. ^ Albrecht N. Rauch: disease names in German. A dialectological and etymological study of the names for diphtheria, Febris scarlatina, Morbilli, parotitis epidemica and varicellae. Stuttgart 1995 (= Journal for Dialectology and Linguistics , Supplement 84).
5. ^ R. Tellier: Review of aerosol transmission of influenza A virus. In: Emerg Infect Dis . November 2006, Vol. 12, No. 11, pp. 1657-1662. PMID 17283614 .
6. ↑ Focus online: More infectious than expected: Coronavirus can be transmitted while breathing
7. ↑ Aerosol and Surface Stability of SARS-CoV-2 as Compared with SARS-CoV-1 New England Journal of Medicine, April 2020.