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A carrier is someone who is able to transmit the disorder to someone else without being affected by it themselves. An example of this is hemophilia where the mother can carry the disease but she can only give it to some of her sons.
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∙ 10y ago
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∙ 11y agoAny person who has the microbes or virus in their system and can transfer it to another healthy individual to cause the disease is called a carrier. A carrier do not show any of the usual symptoms shown by a full fledged diseased individual and is thus mistaken for healthy unless specific test are done.
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∙ 13y agoA carrier of a disease is a organism that transports a disease from one organism to another.
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What is the difference between carrier of a disease and reservoir host of a disease?
The host doesnt show symptoms and the carrier does
What is susceptible individual who can harbor the disease called?
A person who harbors a disease is called a carrier. Often, disease do not manifest in the carrier - they manifest in the descendants of the carriers.
What is a susceptible individual who can harbor a disease called?
This person is called a carrier. Some carriers do not show any signs of the disease but others do (as someone with a cold).
Can you get a disease from eating your own sperm?
No you can't transmit a disease to yourself but you can transmit it to someone else if you are a carrier of a disease . It might. It all depends if the carrier has an STD.
An organism that carries a disease?
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What is the carrier effect in immunology?
A carrier is a person or an animal that shows no signs of having a disease but has the infectious cause and is capable of transmitting the disease to others.
What is the carrier of a disease known as?
Asymptomatic carrier, a person or organism infected with an infectious disease agent, but displaying no symptomsGenetic carrier, a person or organism that has inherited a genetic trait or mutation, but displaying no symptoms
A person with hidden gene for a particular disease?
A person with a hidden gene for a particular disease is commonly called a carrier. This person carries a gene for a disease, however, the disease may not always attack the person's body.
Those who have and transmit the disease organism but do not have symptoms and do not display evisence of the disease?
They are called carrier's.
How can disease transmission be traced to the original carrier?
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What is a carrier plastic?
A carrier plastic is a disease in a human finger nail. It turns grey and then drops off.
Why are there no carrier states with the dominantly inherited traits?
Everyone who has the genetic error gets the disease, because the bad gene is dominant. There is no such thing as a carrier for a dominant disease. A few dominant genetic diseases like Huntington's disease only cause symptoms later in life, so that people cannot know that they have the disease in early life, but this is not the same as being a carrier: these people actually have the disease.
