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/ˈfəʊmʌɪt/ · noun
(medicine) An inanimate object capable of carrying infectious agents (such as bacteria, viruses or prions), and thus passively enabling their transmission between hosts; common examples include towels, dishcloths, kitchenware/flatware, and laundry..
This must be an efficacious fomite of cutaneous and pectoral disease.
Alternatively, such fluids may be transferred from soiled hands to fomites, or airborne organisms may impinge or settle onto fomite surfaces. Fomites may also serve as a site for the replication of a pathogen, as in the case of enteric bacteria in household sponges or dishcloths.
Use fomite when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Fomite means (medicine) An inanimate object capable of carrying infectious agents (such as bacteria, viruses or prions), and thus passively enabling their transmission between hosts; common examples include towels, dishcloths, kitchenware/flatware, and laundry..
Common synonyms include fomes.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
This must be an efficacious fomite of cutaneous and pectoral disease.
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