Translations:DiseaseInvestigation:Course Manual/59/en
- inhalation of droplet or aerosol (influenza, tuberculosis, FMD, anthrax)
- ingestion of contaminated feed or water, dirty hands, oral contact (brucellosis, nematode parasites, mad cow disease, anthrax)
- mechanical by entry of agent through the broken skin/wound or via mucosa (leptospirosis, rabies, anthrax)
- vector by biting insect or tick (tick fever, Japanese encephalitis, bluetongue, ephemeral fever)
- iatrogenic - related to treatment, eg poor aseptic technique (human immunodeficiency virus, methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus ). Some diseases can be transmitted during artificial insemination.
- sexual - venereal aka sexually transmitted (human immunodeficiency virus, infectious pustular vulvovaginitis, classical swine fever, bovine campylobacteriosis)
- vertical, to foetus in the uterus (vertical transmission) (Salmonella Enteritidis (poultry), human immunodeficiency virus)