NOUN
- any inanimate object (as a towel or money or clothing or dishes or books or toys etc.) that can transmit infectious agents from one person to another
How To Use fomite In A Sentence
- Remember, your PJs can be a fomite an inanimate object that will transmit disease. Margie Goldsmith: When Traveling, B Is for "Bedbug," not "Baggage"
- Scabies is normally treated with a scrub bath, boiling the fomites (clothes and bed linens), and application of benzyl benzoate. 11: Human health care
- Then the theory of "fomites" arose, and underwent investigation. How to Study and Teaching How to Study
- Direct zoonoses are transmitted from an infected vertebrate host to another host by direct contact, fomite or mechanical vector. Zoonotic diseases
- Regulations prohibiting citizens from coming into contact with known fomites went back almost four thousand years. Blowback
- You can wash your hands prior to eating or drinking anything and that in and of itself will cut down on your exposure from these fomites, like door knobs. CNN Transcript Feb 8, 2004
- Moreover, they may contaminate fomites that can transmit the disease to persons who do not have direct contact with the animals.
- Transmission is by person to person and fomites, such as bedding and clothing.
- Furthermore, I found it hard to believe that Dr. Erin Mears Kate Winslet has to define the word fomite for senior staffers at the Minnesota Department of Health. Slate Magazine
- Transmission of dermatophytes also can occur indirectly from fomites.
