Also, adequate immunization does not completely eliminate the potential for transmission of the bacterium Corynebacterium diphtheriae.
"I know I can't prove it," he said, "but my hand moves from one patient to another, and if my sleeve is rubbing from one patient onto another, then the potential for transmission is significant".
There has long been concern in public health circles about the potential for transmission of communicable diseases, such as TB, on board aircraft.
Although the majority of organisms isolated were not pathogenic, their presence indicates the potential for transmission of pathogens from laryngoscope handles.
"There is certainly a potential for transmission of certain kinds of infections," he says.
And where we once felt safe as houses when it came to influenza pandemics, now we've suddenly flipped our minds and found in our midst just more terrorists with potential for transmission.
Such a chronic infection constitutes a sustained reservoir of infection that would increase the potential for transmission.
Both R0 and C describe the potential for transmission in a disease-free system, and therefore extrapolation to endemic systems should be made carefully [7].
The potential for transmission of an infection through a contact network can be evaluated in terms of the basic reproduction number, R0.
Here we quantify the impact that heterogeneities in contacts rates of farms have on the potential for transmission of infections of livestock in a farm population.
Nonetheless, as our data indicate that a causal relationship is plausible, measures must be taken to control PRV not only because it threatens domestic salmon production but also due to the potential for transmission to wild salmon populations.
