How To Use Fomite In A Sentence
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Remember, your PJs can be a fomite an inanimate object that will transmit disease.
Margie Goldsmith: When Traveling, B Is for "Bedbug," not "Baggage"
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Scabies is normally treated with a scrub bath, boiling the fomites (clothes and bed linens), and application of benzyl benzoate.
11: Human health care
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Then the theory of "fomites" arose, and underwent investigation.
How to Study and Teaching How to Study
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Direct zoonoses are transmitted from an infected vertebrate host to another host by direct contact, fomite or mechanical vector.
Zoonotic diseases
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Regulations prohibiting citizens from coming into contact with known fomites went back almost four thousand years.
Blowback
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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
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Moreover, they may contaminate fomites that can transmit the disease to persons who do not have direct contact with the animals.
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Transmission is by person to person and fomites, such as bedding and clothing.
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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
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Transmission of dermatophytes also can occur indirectly from fomites.
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Dr. SPELLBERG: You know, all of these organisms can be spread by contact directly with a source patient who's carrying them but can also be spread by what are called fomites, which are simply inanimate objects someone touches, leaves a trace of the bacteria on it.
NPR Topics: News
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Many viral infections are spread chiefly by aerosol, rather than by fomites or personal contact.
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And when I say "satisfying," I mean I squealed with delight every time I heard a Microbiology 1650 buzzword: fomite, paramyxovirus, live attenuated vaccine, encephalitis, and pleiomorphic, just to name a few.
Priya Malhotra: The Facts and Fiction of On-Screen Medicine
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I think it's ideal for sanitizing to occur if that person can't be limited, for example, refresh the air with an air sanitizer likely Lysol, which has a disinfecting alcohol spray that's useful, clean surfaces and counters and door knobs so that they don't become fomites for other family members.
CNN Transcript Feb 8, 2004
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Harvath then became acquainted with the word fomites, a term used by modern epidemiologists to describe items such as garments, bedclothes, cups, and toothbrushes, which were known to possess the capability to harbor infectious pathogens.
Blowback
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Transmission by virus-contaminated hands or fomites is less likely.
