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carrier

In medicine, anyone who harbours an infectious organism without ill effects but can pass the infection to others. The term is also applied to those who carry a recessive gene for a disease or defect without manifesting the condition.
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For example, if one partner is a carrier of a disease like sickle cell trait or G6PD and the other partner is completely healthy then we cannot treat the carrier but because the other partner is normal there is no risk for this marriage to go ahead, because a carrier state doesn't carry risk to the children.
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For each zoonosis the emphasis is on the epidemiology of the disease, the clinical syndromes, carrier states in infected animals and humans, the most current methods of diagnosis, and approaches to control.
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