sexual transmission
Intimacy-based pathogen spread
Sexual transmission is the passing of infections, diseases, or genetic material through sexual contact.
The term appears most often in medical contexts discussing STIs (sexually transmitted infections): HIV spreads primarily through sexual transmission.
The phrase emphasizes the route of transfer rather than the disease itself.
- chlamydiaBacterial venereal infection
- gonorrheaSexually transmitted bacterial disease
- hepatitis BViral disease attacking liver
- syphilisSpirochete-caused venereal infection
- herpesChronic blister-causing virus
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- HIV/AIDSHIV, AIDS, AIDS crisis, AIDS quilt, antiretrovirals
- STIschlamydia, gonorrhea, HIV, herpes, syphilis
- epidemiologyepidemic, epidemiology, pandemic, outbreak, endemic
- syphilissyphilis, Treponema pallidum, tertiary syphilis, congenital syphilis, chancre
mode of disease transmission
sexual transmissionairborne transmission
Disease passage through air
aerosol transmission · droplet transmission · oral transmission