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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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What is the vector for the plasmodium?
female mosquito's
Which virus is the mosquito not known as a possible vector?
Smallpox is the virus that mosquitos are not known as a possible vector.
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.
Identify the vector that aids in the transmission of malaria?
Infected female Anopheles mosquitos
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
What is the role of vector in the spread of disease?
the vector carries a disease from person by person eg the mosquito is a vector carrying and spreading the malaria disease
What is the vector that aids in the transmission of malaria?
female anopheles mosquito
Which insect is the vector that transmits the material parasite plasmodium vivax into your blood?
The Anopheles mosquito is the vector that transmits this parasite.
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.
What is vector-bourne diseases?
A vector-borne illness is an illness carried and actively transmitted by an organism, usually an insect, such as a flea or mosquito
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.
