The phrase "a human vector" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to biology, epidemiology, or discussions about the transmission of diseases or information by humans.
Example: "In the study of infectious diseases, a human vector can play a crucial role in the spread of pathogens."
Alternatives: "human carrier" or "human conduit".
It is exclusively a human vector, it lives in and around the home, if you go into the center of town that's where it is".
Although mechanical dispersal of pathogens is technically difficult, there is a very easy way to infect a large population by using a human vector infected with a virus.
But none of the drugs in development had made it to the clinical trial phase by the time the Ebola virus took hold in Guinea, where it is believed to have made the essential jump from an animal host to a human vector in December 2013 in the prefecture of Gueckedou — potentially traveling from a bat to a 2-year-old boy.
42 In the UK then, although our pipiens form might be an important enzootic vector, it is unlikely to be a human vector despite its synanthropic container breeding habits and its propensity for over-wintering in the cool recesses of houses.
This application of agent-based modelling to a human vector-borne disease can be adapted to different diseases and regions.
In La Réunion, no animal reservoirs have yet been identified for CHIKV and only a human-vector-human cycle is described.
Mice implanted with Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells transfected with a human TNFα vector develop cachexia and die sooner than mice implanted with CHO cells transfected with a control vector alone [ 68].
The first shot, developed by Crucell in the Netherlands, uses a human adenovirus vector.
These observations constitute the first report demonstrating B. microti in a human-biting vector, associated with evidence of human exposure to this agent in a European site.
TSK/+ mice were injected in the gluteal muscle with either hemagglutinating virus of Japan (HVJ) liposomes containing 8 μg of a human HGF expression vector (HGF-HVJ liposomes) or a mock vector (untreated control).
Thus, the cells were transfected with a human H19-expressing vector pH19 (Kallen et al, 2013; Yan et al, 2014) or empty vector, and effects on Igf1r expression were analyzed 48 h later.
