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direct transmission

Epidemiology The immediate transfer of an agent from a reservoir to a susceptible host by direct contact–skin, mouth, open wounds, touching, biting, kissing, sexual contact, or by droplet spread. See Droplet spread. Cf Indirect transmission.

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