Portals of entry

PORTALS OF ENTRY

  • Inhalation
  • Ingestion
  • Inoculation or infection through the skin or mucous membrane
  • Through coitus or contaminated instruments, catheters, semen in Artificial insemination.
  • Transplacenatal infection via the umbilicus
  • Hospital acquired infections are called nosocomial infections.
  • Physician induced infections are known as iatrogenic infections.
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