A vector is simply an organisms which serves to carry or transport a disease, for example the mosquito (an arthropod) carrying the protozoan malaria parasite. Hence a non-arthropod vector would be a vector outside phylum Arthropoda, for instance, a dog (a vertebrate, from phylum Chordata) carrying the rabies virus.
what is the role of a vector in the spread of a disease
A xenodiagnosis is a diagnosis of an infectious disease by exposure to a vector of that disease, incubating the vector and examining it for the presence of that disease.
A vector. A vector is a disease causing agent. Such as ticks, or mosquitos.
A disease which is carried and spread by an agent (animal or microorganism) is a vector spread disease. Eg. Mosquitoes are the vectors for malaria.
a disease
An organism that carries a disease-causing microorganism from one host to another is called a vector. An example of a vector is a deer tick carrying Lyme disease.
I would say yes, as it can carries Malaria.
Vector :)
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A vector-borne disease.
Vector, can transmit cholera; the disease.