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. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News]
Then the theory of "fomites" arose, and underwent investigation. From Wordnik.com. [How to Study and Teaching How to Study] Reference
Scabies is normally treated with a scrub bath, boiling the fomites (clothes and bed linens), and application of benzyl benzoate. From Wordnik.com. [11: Human health care] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 8, 2004] Reference
Cooke and the six other volunteers had proved that fomites did not. From Wordnik.com. [Manuscript Draft: Walter Reed: Doctor in Uniform, by Laura Wood, [19 -- ]] Reference
Nor could anyone but a thorough skeptic doubt the harmless - ness of fomites. From Wordnik.com. [Manuscript Draft: Walter Reed: Doctor in Uniform, by Laura Wood, [19 -- ]] Reference
The more common means of contagion is by direct contact or by means of fomites. From Wordnik.com. [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference
It's going to take a lot of proof to convince me that fomites aren't responsible. From Wordnik.com. [Manuscript Draft: Walter Reed: Doctor in Uniform, by Laura Wood, [19 -- ]] Reference
It made him won - der if fomites were as dangerous as they were generally thought to be. From Wordnik.com. [Manuscript Draft: Walter Reed: Doctor in Uniform, by Laura Wood, [19 -- ]] Reference
For years people had attributed the disease to invisible particles which they called "fomites.". From Wordnik.com. [How to Study and Teaching How to Study] Reference
These facts suggest that fomites probably don't spread the fever, and that something else does. From Wordnik.com. [Manuscript Draft: Walter Reed: Doctor in Uniform, by Laura Wood, [19 -- ]] Reference
Data on the survival of avian influenza viruses on fomites was used to estimate the ability of a vehicle to expose secondary farm. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
When the volunteers for the fomites experiment heard it, the gravity of their bearing disappeared in a rush of uproarious high spirits. From Wordnik.com. [Manuscript Draft: Walter Reed: Doctor in Uniform, by Laura Wood, [19 -- ]] Reference
MRSA has generally been thought of as a problem involving human to human transmission, possibly through fomites (inanimate objects) or directly. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
Because it is so difficult to kill, the virus is easily transmitted by fomites such as the hands, clothing, or shoes of anyone who comes in contact with it. From Wordnik.com. [Messenger News] Reference
Dr. Robert P. Cooke, a tall young contract doctor with straight lanky hair and a humorous expression, had volunteered for the fomites experiments and was the only other doctor at the camp. From Wordnik.com. [Manuscript Draft: Walter Reed: Doctor in Uniform, by Laura Wood, [19 -- ]] Reference
In his talk "Reinventing Hygiene for the 21st Century," Gerba will discuss the role that fomites (inanimate objects) play in the transmission of common diseases, such as respiratory and enteric infections. From Wordnik.com. [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference
He found that the vaccine virus was deprived of its infecting quality, at 140° of Farenheit, and that the contagions of Scarlatina, and Typhus fever, from fomites, were certainly dissipated and destroyed, at the dry heat of boiling water. From Wordnik.com. [Letters on the Cholera Morbus. Containing ample evidence that this disease, under whatever name known, cannot be transmitted from the persons of those labouring under it to other individuals, by contact—through the medium of inanimate substances—or through the medium of the atmosphere; and that all restrictions, by cordons and quarantine regulations, are, as far as regards this disease, not merely useless, but highly injurious to the community.] Reference
Some of them, at least, must have been exposed to fomites. ". From Wordnik.com. [Manuscript Draft: Walter Reed: Doctor in Uniform, by Laura Wood, [19 -- ]] Reference
The reasons for failure were irregular application of paste and not doing the preliminary treatment of scrub bath and boiling of fomites to prevent reinfection. ". From Wordnik.com. [11: Human health care] Reference
"In principle, influenza viruses can be transmitted by 3 routes: aerosols, large droplets, and direct contact with secretions (or with fomites). From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
Quinq; Portus fomites Barones p 'centum. From Wordnik.com. [A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum] Reference
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