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What is a fomite?

What is a fomite? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (medicine) An inanimate object capable of carrying infectious agents (such as bacteria, viruses and parasites), and thus passively enabling their transmission between hosts.
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Medical personnel call grocery bags by the ominous-sounding name fomite.
An inspector may inspect any animal and other animal-related things as well as any premises, conveyance, activity, fomite or vector related to any of them.
Although survival in the environment is not known, the modes of transmission do not suggest fomite survival.
He said that it is flu it is caused by sneezing as such towel be used to cover nose to avoid direct fomite from going into the air.
The typical strategy to inhibit fomite transmission of microbes is to clean and disinfect the surfaces that are likely to be points of cross contamination.
Patients treated with TNF inhibitors may acquire coccidiomycosis infection through fomite dust exposure.

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