An insect or other organism which transmits a pathanogenic virus, bactereum, fungus, etc.
Rodents, flies, mosquitoes or other organisms capable of transporting infectious agents.
in this context, an insect or other organism which transmits agents of disease. Feral pigs for example have the potential to harbour diseases which would be disastrous to the cattle industry such as foot and mouth. Mosquitos are another example.
organisms that carry diseasecausing pathogens. At landfills rodents, flies, and birds are the main vectors that spread pathogens beyond the landfill site.
Organisms (e.g. insects, crustaceans, snails, arachnids) which carry pathogens between humans, or from infected animals to humans – e.g. mosquitoes are the vector of the malarial protozoan, Plasmodium; fleas are the vector of the plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis; freshwater snails are the vector (and intermediate host) of the schistosomiasis parasite, Schistosoma.
Carriers, especially an animal (usually an arthropod), in whose body a pathogenic organism develops and multiplies before being transmitted to the next host.