What’s on the Pathogens poster
A 6-row table: Route · Example.
Transmission routes with an example of each.
- Airborne / droplet — Influenza, TB, COVID-19
- Faecal-oral — Cholera, norovirus, typhoid
- Direct contact — Athlete's foot, impetigo
- Vector-borne — Malaria, dengue, Lyme
- Bloodborne — HIV, hepatitis B and C
- Vertical — Mother to child, e.g. rubella
R₀ is the average number of secondary infections in a fully susceptible population. Above 1, an outbreak grows.
Questions about the Pathogens poster
- What’s on the Pathogens poster?
- A 6-row table: Route · Example. Transmission routes with an example of each. Airborne / droplet — Influenza, TB, COVID-19; Faecal-oral — Cholera, norovirus, typhoid; Direct contact — Athlete's foot, impetigo; Vector-borne — Malaria, dengue, Lyme; Bloodborne — HIV, hepatitis B and C; Vertical — Mother to child, e.g. rubella. R₀ is the average number of secondary infections in a fully susceptible population. Above 1, an outbreak grows.
- Who is the Pathogens poster for?
- Pathogens belongs to the Biology section rather than to a school year, because life science is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning microbiology can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Pathogens poster?
- Route determines control. Airborne and waterborne need different interventions. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Pathogens belongs on the wall where that life science work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Pathogens?
- Antibiotic Resistance, How Antibiotics Work and Aseptic Technique sit alongside Pathogens in the Biology section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Antibiotic ResistanceHow Antibiotics WorkAseptic Technique
- Is the Pathogens poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Pathogens downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Biology section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Pathogens poster print at?
- Pathogens is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Pathogens loses nothing.Printing guide
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