Vertical transmission of symbionts is the transfer of a microbial symbiont from the parent directly to the offspring.  Many metazoan species carry symbiotic...

A vertically transmitted infection is an infection caused by pathogenic bacteria or viruses that use mother-to-child transmission, that is, transmission...

As of 2008, vertical transmission accounted for about 90% of cases of HIV in children. In the absence of treatment, the risk of transmission before or during...

fomites that allow the transmission of the agent causing the disease without physical contact) or by vertical disease transmission, passing the agent causing...

transstadial transmission a type of horizontal transmission, whereas other sources consider it vertical or partial vertical transmission. Transstadial...

painful. Herpes in the newborn is a serious and sometimes fatal infection. Transmission of Hepatitis C and B to the infant can occur if the nipples are cracked...

the risk of vertical transmission to be 10.8% in HCV-positive, HIV-positive women. Other studies have found the risk of vertical transmission to be as high...

leading to higher viremia and more severe forms of disease. Vertical transmission, the transmission of a viral or bacterial disease from the female of the...

cells as host cells divide. Horizontal, vertical, and mixed-mode (hybrid of horizonal and vertical) transmission are the three paths for symbiont transfer...

process, used by a wide variety of parasites, is also known as vertical transmission. For example, Rickettsia rickettsii, carried within ticks, is passed...