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  2. Pathogen transmission - Wikipedia

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    An infectious disease agent can be transmitted in two ways: as horizontal disease agent transmission from one individual to another in the same generation (peers in the same age group) [3] by either direct contact (licking, touching, biting), or indirect contact through air – cough or sneeze (vectors or fomites that allow the transmission of the agent causing the disease without physical ...

  3. Antigenic variation - Wikipedia

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    Antigenic sift: direct transmission with a zoonotic strain of a virus. This occurs when a human is infected during a spillover event. Antigenic lift: Viral transmission of host derived gene. Some viruses steal host genes and then incorporate them into their own viral genome, encoding genes that sometimes give them an increased virulence.

  4. Source attribution - Wikipedia

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    As a result, there is some chance that the branching order in the virus phylogeny implies a different order of transmission events if we interpret the phylogeny as equivalent to a transmission tree. For example, in Figure 3D hosts 1 and 3 are more closely related in the transmission history, but not in the phylogeny.

  5. Infection - Wikipedia

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    Sexual transmission, with the result being called sexually transmitted infection. Oral transmission , diseases that are transmitted primarily by oral means may be caught through direct oral contact such as kissing , or by indirect contact such as by sharing a drinking glass or a cigarette.

  6. COVID-19 lab leak theory - Wikipedia

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    Such a scenario, while being a lab leak, would also fit our first hypothesis of direct transmission of the virus from bat to human." [102] The United States, European Union, and 13 other countries criticized the WHO-convened study, calling for transparency from the Chinese government and access to the raw data and original samples. [103]

  7. Direct and indirect band gaps - Wikipedia

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    In semiconductors, the band gap of a semiconductor can be of two basic types, a direct band gap (DBGSC) or an indirect band gap (IDBGSC). The minimal-energy state in the conduction band and the maximal-energy state in the valence band are each characterized by a certain crystal momentum (k-vector) in the Brillouin zone .

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  9. Horizontal gene transfer - Wikipedia

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    Tree of life showing vertical and horizontal gene transfers. Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) or lateral gene transfer (LGT) [1] [2] [3] is the movement of genetic material between organisms other than by the ("vertical") transmission of DNA from parent to offspring (reproduction). [4]