Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Types and Transmission of
Pathogens
- Bacteria
- Tuberculosis (TB)
- Bacterial Meningitis
- Ring Rot (Potatoes/Tomatoes)
- Virus
- HIV/AIDS (Humans)
- Influenza (Animals)
- Tobacco Mosaic Virus (Plants)
- Fungi
- Black Sigatoka (Bananas)
- Ringworm (Cattle)
- Athletes Foot (Humans)
- Protoctista
- Malaria
- Potato/Tomato Blight
- Direct Transmission
- Vertical
- Pathogen passes from Mother
to child through placenta
- HIV
- Horizontal
- Sexual Intercourse
- HIV
- Touch
- Athletes foot
- Droplet Infection
- TB
- Indirect Transmission
- When one pathogen is
passed to another via an
intermediate (a vector)
- Vectors can be air, water,
food or another organism
- Malaria
- Vector is the mosquito
- Potato/Tomato Blight
- Spores carried in the air and water