This must be an efficacious fomite of cutaneous and pectoral disease.
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Fomite
//ˈfoʊmaɪt//
Synonyms for "fomite" (2 found)
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23 translations across 15 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- fòmit noun (inanimate object capable of transferring infectious agents)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 傳染物 /传染物 noun (inanimate object capable of transferring infectious agents)
- 媒介物 noun (inanimate object capable of transferring infectious agents)
- 病媒 noun (inanimate object capable of transferring infectious agents)
Dutch
1 entries- fomiet noun (inanimate object capable of transferring infectious agents)
Finnish
1 entries- fomiitti noun (inanimate object capable of transferring infectious agents)
French
2 entries- fomite noun (inanimate object capable of transferring infectious agents)
- vecteur passif noun (inanimate object capable of transferring infectious agents)
German
2 entries- Fomite noun (inanimate object capable of transferring infectious agents)
- Infektionsträger noun (inanimate object capable of transferring infectious agents)
Irish
1 entries- fóimít noun (inanimate object capable of transferring infectious agents)
Italian
1 entries- fomite noun (inanimate object capable of transferring infectious agents)
Japanese
1 entries- 媒介物 noun (inanimate object capable of transferring infectious agents)
Korean
1 entries- 매개물 noun (inanimate object capable of transferring infectious agents)
Portuguese
2 entries- fómite noun (inanimate object capable of transferring infectious agents)
- fômite noun (inanimate object capable of transferring infectious agents)
Romanian
1 entries- fomite noun (inanimate object capable of transferring infectious agents)
Russian
4 entries- возбуди́тель noun (inanimate object capable of transferring infectious agents)
- перено́счик noun (inanimate object capable of transferring infectious agents)
- посре́дник noun (inanimate object capable of transferring infectious agents)
- фомиты noun (inanimate object capable of transferring infectious agents)
Spanish
1 entries- fómite noun (inanimate object capable of transferring infectious agents)
Turkish
1 entries- fomit noun (inanimate object capable of transferring infectious agents)
Sample sentences
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Alternatively, such fluids may be transferred from soiled hands to fomites, or airborne organisms may impinge or settle onto fomite surfaces. Fomites may also serve as a site for the replication of a pathogen, as in the case of enteric bacteria in household sponges or dishcloths.
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