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Insect Vectors(Topical Term)

Preferred form: Insect Vectors
Used for/see from:
  • n: Insect Vector
  • n: Vector, Insect
  • n: Vectors, Insect

coord IM with specific insect (IM); specify both infecting organism & vector if pertinent; in the trypanosome-tsetse fly-cow relationship, the fly (not the cow) is the insect vector

Insects that transmit infective organisms from one host to another or from an inanimate reservoir to an animate host.

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