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vector

In medicine, disease-carrying agent. The term is usually applied to insects, ticks, and the like, that transmit parasites from one person to another or from animals to human beings. The Anopheles mosquito is a vector, transmitting the malaria parasite in its salivary glands.



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For example, there is a maximum vectorial travel speed of 800 mm/sec.
In these outbreaks, the incubation period was [approximately equal to]22 days, compared with 4-15 days for vectorial transmission and 30-40 days for transfusional transmission (7).
 
 
 
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