Transmission routes
What Transmission routes means in Combined Science GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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Reference: AQA
The ways a pathogen leaves one host, travels, and enters a new host, such as direct contact, water, air, food or a vector.
Direct contact, water or air, by which pathogens can be spread.
Topics that use Transmission routes
- Communicable (infectious) diseases (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Antibiotics
- Breaking the chain of infection
- Hygiene and sanitation
- Obligate parasites
- Pathogen groups and disease
- Transmission routes in animals
- Transmission routes in plants
- Vaccination and immunity
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