Contagious: Aspergillosis
| About contagion: Contagion and contagiousness refers to how easily the spread of Aspergillosis is possible from one person to another. Other words for contagion include "infection", "infectiousness", "transmission" or "transmissability". Contagiousness has nothing to do with genetics or inheriting diseases from parents. For an overview of contagion, see Introduction to Contagion. |
Contagion summary:
Inhalation of airborne conidia (spores).
Nosocomial infection may be associated with dust exposure
during building renovation or construction. Occasional outbreaks
of cutaneous infection traced to contaminated biomedical devices.1
Footnotes:
1. excerpt from Aspergillosis: DBMD
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