Infection controlQuestion 1123 of 1700
You touch a sheet with wound drainage and then touch another resident without washing your hands. Which mode of transmission is this?
- Contact transmission
- Droplet transmission from a sneeze
- Airborne transmission over a distance
- A portal of exit through the skin
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Correct answer: Contact transmission
The germs moved by touch. Hand hygiene would have broken the chain.
Questions last reviewed: 18 October 2026