The phrase "acting as vectors" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to physics, biology, or any field where entities are described as influencing or directing forces or movements.
Example: "In this experiment, the particles are acting as vectors, guiding the flow of energy through the medium."
Alternatives: "functioning as vectors" or "serving as vectors."
Chagas is also springing up in the Amazon, where different insects are acting as vectors, she says.
"Our most likely explanation (although we have no proof of this yet) is that healthy humans might be acting as vectors of transcontinental spread," Floto wrote in an email.
Recent advances in comparative genomics and metagenomics have uncovered a vast viral diversity and have shown that viruses are active regulators of cell populations and that they can influence cell evolution by acting as vectors for gene transfer among cells.
The model assumes the disease to spread between units by medical staff acting as vectors [4], [5] and is used to argue for the key-role of the staff in the spreading dynamics.
They may also fall ill from listeriosis and spirochetosis, as well as acting as vectors in spreading erysipelas, brucellosis and tick-born encephalitis.
Previous evidence of parasitic helminths acting as vectors does exist.
The extract or isolated bioactive phytochemical could be used in stagnant water bodies for the control of mosquitoes acting as vector for many communicable diseases.
33 Cats might act as reservoirs but this is more suggestive of cats acting as mechanical vectors.
We let Ψ ∈ ℝN × Ndenote an orthonormal basisa for ℝ N, with its columns acting as basis vectors, and we write x = Ψα, where α := Ψ T x ∈ ℝ N denotes the expansion coefficients of x in the basis Ψ.
They can also contaminate livestock, acting as permanent vectors, capable of contaminating their host for a long period of time.
Once released into the circulation, MP bind and fuse with their target cells through receptor ligand interactions, thereby acting as biological vectors mediating vascular inflammation and coagulation.
