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In medical terms, a vector is an intermediary organism that carries and transmits a disease from one host to another, usually without contracting the disease itself. When female mosquitoes feed on the blood of an animal infected with a disease (e.g. malaria, equine encephalitis), and then bites another animal, the mosquito's saliva/anticoagulant fluid infects the second animal, or human, with the disease. (In malaria, the actual fertilization of the infective Plasmodium sporozoite takes place within the mosquito.)
* In the special case of the human botfly, the mosquito has been seized by an egg-laying fly, which plants its eggs on the mosquito, and the mosquito (unharmed) carries the eggs of the fly to new human hosts.
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Which virus is the mosquito not known as a possible vector?
Smallpox is the virus that mosquitos are not known as a possible vector.
Identify the vector that aids in the transmission of malaria?
Infected female Anopheles mosquitos
When does dengue attack?
Whenever one is bitten by a Vector mosquito. The mosquito becomes a vector after it has bitten an dengue infected carrier - usually another Human.
Is mosquito a vector?
I would say yes, as it can carries Malaria.
What is the name of an animal vector that spreads malaria?
mosquito's
Which insect is the vector that transmits the material parasite plasmodium vivax into your blood?
The Anopheles mosquito is the vector that transmits the malaria parasite Plasmodium vivax into the bloodstream. When an infected mosquito bites a person, it injects the parasite into the bloodstream, where it multiplies and causes malaria.
What is the vector that aids in the transmission of malaria?
female anopheles mosquito
If you contract a contagious illness from being bitten by a mosquito this would be considered contraction through?
If you contract a contagious illness from being bitten by a mosquito, this would be considered contraction through vector transmission. Mosquitoes can act as vectors, spreading pathogens such as viruses or parasites from one person to another through their bites.
What is the vector for the plasmodium?
The vector for Plasmodium, the parasite that causes malaria, is the female Anopheles mosquito. These mosquitoes can transmit the parasite to humans through their bites during blood meals.
Which vector transmits malarial fever?
The name of the vector is Anopheles mosquito. It makes the the angle of about 45 degree to the wall, when it sits there.
How are malaria and dengue spread?
Mosquito is a vector for both the diseases. Anopheles mosquito spreads the malaria and culex mosquito spreads the dengue fever.
The spread of a disease by the bite of a certain mosquito is known as?
vector-borne transmission
