Sentences with phrase «human pathogen transmission»

Mosquitoes and ticks may spread more disease, but many people find bedbugs more repulsive, even though documented cases of bedbug - human pathogen transmission are rare.

Not exact matches

The Universal Precautions to prevent the transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), Hepatitis B virus, and other bloodborne pathogens do not apply to human milk.

The boost in these human - associated microbes could increase transmission of potential pathogens and decrease exposure to potentially beneficial environmental microbes.

«The pathogen does not care if it jumped from an animal or from another human; the only difference is that in a stuttering transmission an infected person can trigger other chains of human infections.

Human interactions with indoor airborne microbes have been investigated for more than a century (Tyndall, 1881; Carnelley, Haldane & Anderson, 1887; Tyndall, 1876), although almost exclusively from the perspective of disease and airborne - transmission of pathogens (Noble et al., 1976; Sherertz, Bassetti & Bassetti - Wyss, 2001; Tang et al., 2011).

And the math is simple: More points of contact facilitate more spillovers, and more transmission of animal pathogens into the human population.

At any point in history, he says, new strains could have arisen from these pathogens rather than from human - to - human transmission.

«Our study suggests that chickens could be a major source for transmission of emerging MDR pathogen, H. pullorum, from poultry to humans,» the investigators concluded.

Consequently, broad infection control measures that are designed to prevent pathogen transmission and infection, such as oversanitation and the overuse of antibiotics, may inadvertently affect human health by altering normal commensal transmission.