- Infectious agent - Infectious disease - Transmission of disease by contact - The transmission of a disease from one person to
another, by direct or indirect contact. - That which serves as a medium or agency to transmit
disease; a virus produced by, or exhalation proceeding from, a diseased
person, and capable of reproducing the disease. - The act or means of communicating any influence to the
mind or heart; as, the contagion of enthusiasm. - Venom; poison.
- Disinfectant - Destructive to germs; -- applied to any agent which has
a destructive action upon living germs, particularly bacteria, or
bacterial germs, which are considered the cause of many infectious
diseases. - A germicide agent.