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SUPER-SPREADER [1 record]

Record 1 2021-04-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Epidemiology
  • Viral Diseases
  • Bacterial Diseases
DEF

A single contagious person who contaminates a disproportionately large number of people compared to the number of people contaminated by the average contagious person.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Épidémiologie
  • Maladies virales
  • Maladies bactériennes
DEF

Personne contagieuse qui contamine un nombre disproportionnellement élevé de personnes comparativement au nombre de personnes contaminées par une personne contagieuse moyenne.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Epidemiología
  • Enfermedades víricas
  • Enfermedades bacterianas
DEF

[...] persona cuya capacidad para transmitir un virus es muy superior a la media.

OBS

supercontagiador; superpropagador: La Fundación del Español Urgente (Fundéu BBVA), con el asesoramiento de la Real Academia Española, indica que los sustantivos "supercontagiador" y "superpropagador", escritos en una sola palabra, sin guion ni espacio intermedios, son una alternativa preferible al anglicismo "super spreader".

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