Sources, paths, and the main mechanism of transmission

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Be Aware of how the spread of infectious diseases will be useful not only for myself, but also to the risk of infection to protect themselves and their loved ones from illness.

Transmission: stages and sources

The Mechanism of transmission is the method by which the causative agent gets from an infected source to a susceptible organism. This process, of course, does not occur simultaneously. First, the pathogen must somehow stand out from an infected source, then a period of time it stays in the environment or in animal intermediary, and only then in a certain way falls into a susceptible organism.

It All starts with the source. In epidemiology it is considered that the sources of infection may be only those objects in which the natural habitat, breeding, and then the release of pathogens disease through physiological processes. Infected people or animals - that sources of infection. The mechanism of transmission is determined by which way the disease is passed on.

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Ways and mechanisms of infection

Ways of transmission are objects of inanimate nature, which are the natural habitat of microbes data are not, but are actively involved in their transmission. This is mainly air and water, household items, food and soil - sometimes it is wrongly considered sources of infection. In General, depending on where it is initially concentrated agent and by which it is released, it outlines the main mechanisms of transmission: aerosol, contact, alimentary, transmission.

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Factors of development of infection

The Interaction between microbes and the human body always occurs not in isolation but in conjunction of certain factors. Are important not only mechanisms and ways of transmission, but also the state at the time of infection of the immune system, dose of the pathogen, the parameters of the environment and the way in which a disease-causing microbe has penetrated the body.

Each kind of pathogens selects the most favorable place for itself in the host organism – one that will provide him the opportunity to succeed in life, and subsequent release into the environment and distribution. As for the infection, it is curious that evolutionary every agent has their own fixed, often the only "front door". It may be the mucous membranes of the respiratory and digestive system, damaged skin and genitourinary system. The disease will not develop if the pathogen gets into the human body through his, but through "foreign", non-common gate.

It is also Interesting that, in order to cause disease, requires a certain amount of pathogens. The infectious dose for each pathogen has its own.

Aerosol mechanism

This is the most common mechanism of transmission. Sometimes it is also called respiratory aspiration or aerogenic, but most often this method is called airborne. This title well describes the way in which transmitted pathogens in this case. Initially, the virus or bacteria accumulate in the mucous membranes of the respiratory tract, while sneezing, coughing or talking with droplets of saliva and mucus stand out in the surrounding air. After a stay in aerosol form for some time, the pathogens with the flow of the inhaled air fall within the susceptible organism. And if the drops are relatively large in size, quickly deposited, finely dispersed aerosols capable of long time to be active and to travel considerable distances. It is necessary to clarify that the pathogens can reside not only in drops but also in dust particles. For those pathogens that are resistant to drying.

mechanisms and ways of infection

Nutritional (dietary) mechanism

In this case, In your body the infection is localized in the intestine and released into the environment with waste products. The infection is performed through the mouth, usually through infected food and water. Infection in them can get dirty hands, through the consumption of meat and milk of infected animals by insects. This path is known as the fecal-oral mechanism of transmission of infection - also quite "telling" name.

the mechanism of transmission of the pathogen

Contact way

Another fairly common mechanism of transmission. Pathogens may reside on the skin, mucous membranes, wounds. Interestingly, these pathogens have a high sensitivity to environmental conditions, so to infect them with the necessary direct contact with infected tissues. However, contamination may also occur through the various items. It can be bacterial, viral, fungal infections and parasitic diseases.

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Private contact optionsmechanism

Often, these ways of infection are generally isolated in a separate group. But, strictly speaking, they are only particular cases of the already described contact mechanism. We are talking about sexual, blood-contact and vertical transmission. Sex involves contamination through contact of the mucous membranes of the genitourinary system. Blood-contact way infection is through infected blood source, and if it enters directly into the bloodstream of a healthy person. This can occur during blood transfusions, for example, or in a medical manipulation-related damage to the skin or mucous membranes non-sterile instruments. The vertical path is so called because the mechanism of transmission ensures the transfer of the pathogen from one generation to another, when the disease is transmitted either through the placenta during pregnancy or during delivery.

Transmissible mechanism of infection

With this mechanism the pathogen is in the blood source, and it is implemented by insects, namely the blood sucking mosquitoes and sandflies, lice, ticks, fleas. In this case, the insects living factors of transmission. And in the body of some of them is simply the accumulation of pathogens, in other - is the cycle of their development and reproduction. It is logical that the degree of zarahemla is directly proportional to the size of the insect population. Infection usually occurs directly in the process of the bite, but the probability of penetration of pathogens into the damaged skin, if to crush an insect.

I Must say that the article contains a classification of mechanisms for the transfer of pathogens to some extent, is conditional. So, some sources do not emit vector-borne mechanism in a separate group, and consider it a variant of the blood-contact - blood way. Transmission through syringes and other sterile medical instruments at times also quite logically belong to the transmissible mechanism of how intrauterine and path.

the mechanism of transmission of intestinal infections

Examples of infectious diseases depending on the transfer

The Number of microorganisms on Earth is in the millions. Bacteria, viruses, fungi - many of them are harmless, while others cause disease. Sources, mechanisms and ways of transmission in cases of various diseases are different. List them all is unlikely, but the most common should know how and possible methods of infection by pathogens.

 basic mechanisms of infection

So, air-drop way transmitted: influenza, scarlet fever and varicella, rubella and measles, and meningitis, tonsillitis, tuberculosis and others. With regard to fecal-oral, it is, as a rule, the mechanism of transmission of intestinal infections: cholera, dysentery, hepatitis A etc. in the same way do people become infected with polio. Diseases transmitted by contact, various skin infections, tetanus, venereal disease, anthrax. Finally, the vector-borne route - through the bites of blood-sucking insects - transmitted malaria, typhus, plague, encephalitis. Of course, not so simple, and many infectious diseases are transmitted through not one, but several mechanisms.

the sources and mechanisms of transmission of infection

Prevention

The Observance of the elementary rules of personal hygiene is one of the most simple and reliable means to protect against infectious diseases, especially transmitted through the alimentary. It is also impossible to neglect the careful washing and adequate heat treatment of food products. The worst enemies of the spread of diseases transmitted through the air is the ventilation, isolation of patients, use medical masks if necessary contact with them. To prevent infection through blood need, to the extent possible, carefully choose medical facilities, tattoo shops and beauty salons. On the prevention of sexually transmitted infections has been said a lot. Well, finally not to mention all the immune system. The disease is easier to prevent than to treat it.


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