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contaminations manuportées

English translation: handborne transmission/contamination

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French term or phrase:contaminations manuportées
English translation:handborne transmission/contamination
Entered by: Drmanu49

21:57 Jan 22, 2008
French to English translations [PRO]
Science - Medical: Health Care
French term or phrase: contaminations manuportées
"une désinfection des mains peut diminuer un risque de contaminations manuportées (mammites)."

I know what it means, but how do we say this in English?
Timothy Barton
Local time: 05:59
handborne transmission/contamination
Explanation:
Antimicrobial-resistant bacteria can spread from person to person by handborne transmission. Therefore, knowing the effect of a long-term care facility’s ...
aje.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/157/1/40

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Note added at 4 mins (2008-01-22 22:01:50 GMT)
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Nursery outbreaks are usually not food-borne but occur by direct and indirect handborne transmission. 2. Amoebic Entamoeba histolytica: During faecal ...
www.infectioncontrolservices.co.uk/table_infections.htm - 142k

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Note added at 5 hrs (2008-01-23 03:27:23 GMT)
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or carriage by handcontact as indicated to Eric.

Direct-contact transmission also can occur between two patients (e.g., by hand contact), with one serving as the source of infectious microorganisms and the ...
www.globalsecurity.org/security/ops/hsc-scen-3_flu-transmis... - 27k

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Note added at 5 hrs (2008-01-23 03:27:37 GMT)
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Several scenarios by which food contamination occurred from bare-hand contact were described in the 72 articles. In an outbreak of Norwalk-like virus ...
vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~ear/rterisk.html - 11
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Drmanu49
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Local time: 05:59
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Summary of answers provided
4 +7handborne transmission/contamination
Drmanu49
5 +1contamination by hand
Eric Bullington
3 -1nosocomial
Bashiqa


  

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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): -1
nosocomial


Explanation:
Depending on where your "health care" is. This is perhaps the correct term if related to hospital

Bashiqa
France
Local time: 05:59
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Drmanu49: no, not a specific as the source term.
27 mins
disagree  Eric Bullington: Nosocomial infections can also be airborne and bloodborne (among other routes of transmission)
1 hr
  -> Thank you for the info - I stand corrected
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +1
contamination by hand


Explanation:
I think that manu is right in that they are specifically calling attention to the hand. However, I would use "risk of contamination by hand" instead of "risk of handborne transmission".

The point I was trying to make in my remark above was to compare the three in order to illustrate that "handborne" is not a term that is normally used in this context. I was using an analogy. *I'm not suggesting that the translation is in any way related to bloodborne or airborne transmission*.

"Airborne transmission" = 41,300 hits
"Bloodborne transmission" = 1,330
"Handborne transmission" = 7 hits (because this is not a typical term for this kind of transmission)

Also, compare "transmission by hand" (21,500 hits) to "handborne transmission" (7 hits). Or "contamination by hand" (28,800) to "handborne contamination" (1 hit).

Eric Bullington
Local time: 23:59
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Tony M: In the hospital where I worked, we were actually asked to make a video to show people how to wash their hands properly. Unbelievable!
7 hrs
  -> Thank you, Tony.
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2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +7
handborne transmission/contamination


Explanation:
Antimicrobial-resistant bacteria can spread from person to person by handborne transmission. Therefore, knowing the effect of a long-term care facility’s ...
aje.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/157/1/40

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Note added at 4 mins (2008-01-22 22:01:50 GMT)
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Nursery outbreaks are usually not food-borne but occur by direct and indirect handborne transmission. 2. Amoebic Entamoeba histolytica: During faecal ...
www.infectioncontrolservices.co.uk/table_infections.htm - 142k

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Note added at 5 hrs (2008-01-23 03:27:23 GMT)
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or carriage by handcontact as indicated to Eric.

Direct-contact transmission also can occur between two patients (e.g., by hand contact), with one serving as the source of infectious microorganisms and the ...
www.globalsecurity.org/security/ops/hsc-scen-3_flu-transmis... - 27k

v

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Note added at 5 hrs (2008-01-23 03:27:37 GMT)
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Several scenarios by which food contamination occurred from bare-hand contact were described in the 72 articles. In an outbreak of Norwalk-like virus ...
vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~ear/rterisk.html - 11

Drmanu49
France
Local time: 05:59
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 736
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Kate Hudson (X)
1 hr
  -> Thank you Kate.
agree  Bourth (X): It's frightening: some time ago I saw a TV report in a French hospital that showed that nurses and medics had little idea of how to wash their hands properly. The lessons were a revelation to many of them!.
1 hr
  -> Thank you, it is one of the key issues in our institution's hygiene guidelines.
neutral  Eric Bullington: I meant by way of comparison try googling the others. Since it's mastitis I think you're right in that it's specifically the hand. I would still say "by hand", normally the route of transmission is "transmission by direct contact".
2 hrs
  -> Well, that is manuportée Eric, carriage by handcontact, neither airborne nor bloodborne here.
agree  mdcdc: yes direct handcontact
2 hrs
  -> Thank you.
agree  Michael Barnett
3 hrs
  -> Thank you Michael!
agree  Angeliki Papadopoulou
6 hrs
  -> Thank you Angeliki.
agree  Patrice
7 hrs
  -> Thank you.
agree  Teri Szucs
11 days
  -> Thank you Teri.
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