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COMMUNICABLE DISEASES
Dr Soumar Dutta
CDMO
Guwahati Refinery Hospital
COMMUNICABLE DISEASES
EPIDEMIOLOGICAL TRIAD
DYNAMICS OF DISEASE
TRANSMISSION
MODES OF TRANSMISSION
MODES OF TRANSMISSION
E. DIRECT TRANSMISSION
F. INDIRECT TRANSMISSION
MODES OF TRANSMISSION
DIRECT TRANSMISSION
MODES OF TRANSMISSION
DIRECT TRANSMISSION
• Direct Contact
MODES OF TRANSMISSION
DIRECT TRANSMISSION
• Direct Contact
• Skin to Skin.
• Mucosa to Mucosa.
• Mucosa to Skin.
Traditionally 5F’s
Flies
Finger
Fomite
Food
Fluids
INDIRECT TRANSMISSION
• Vehicle-borne.
Water (MC)
Food
Ice
Blood, Serum, Plasma
Tissues and organs
INDIRECT TRANSMISSION
• Vehicle-borne.
• Vector-borne.
INDIRECT TRANSMISSION
• Vehicle-borne.
• Vector-borne.
• Air-borne.
INDIRECT TRANSMISSION
• Vehicle-borne.
• Vector-borne.
• Air-borne.
• Fomite-borne.
Inanimate article or substances other than water or
food contaminated by infectious agents
INDIRECT TRANSMISSION
• Vehicle-borne.
• Vector-borne.
• Air-borne.
• Fomite-borne.
• Unclean hand and finger.
COMMUNICABLE DISEASES
PREVALENT IN INDIA
Respiratory infections:
• Chicken pox. • Diphtheria.
• Measles. • Meningitis.
• Mumps. • Whooping Cough.
• Rubella. • ARI.
• Influenza . • TB.
COMMUNICABLE DISEASES
PREVALENT IN INDIA
Intestinal Infections:
• Poliomyelitis. • Food poisoning.
• Viral hepatitis. • Amoebiasis.
• Acute diarrhoeal • Taeniasis.
disease. • Ascarasis.
• Typhoid fever. • Hookworm infestation.
• Cholera.
COMMUNICABLE DISEASES
PREVALENT IN INDIA
Arthropod-borne Diseases
• Malaria
• Dengue.
• Filariasis.
Zoonosis:
Viral Bacterial
• Rabies. • Leptospirosis.
• JE. • Brucellosis.
• Avian flu. • Human salmonellosis.
COMMUNICABLE DISEASES
PREVALENT IN INDIA
Surface Infections:
• Trachoma
• Tetanus
• Leprosy
• AIDS
• STD
Hospital Acquired Infections.
Disease Prevention And Control