Sentence examples for mechanical vectors from inspiring English sources

Synanthropic fly species can be potential mechanical vectors of many infectious agents.

doi 10.1186/s13059-014-0466-3. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13059-014-0466-3. Background: Adult house flies, Musca domestica L., are mechanical vectors of more than 100 devastating diseases that have severe consequences for human and animal health.

Tabanids (Diptera: Tabanidae) are haematophagous cosmopolitan flies that are pests to humans and livestock as well as mechanical vectors of animal disease agents such as Besnoitia besnoiti and the equine infectious anaemia virus.

Dispersal of asexual spores and/or yeast cells of ST7 by different and undetermined biological and/or mechanical vectors might account for its abundance and widespread distribution throughout the Australian continent, and indeed, around the planet.

We regard arrival with an insect vector as unlikely, partly because the principal mechanical vectors were first recorded relatively recently (Culex quinquefasciatus in 1985, Aedes aegypti in 2001, Simulium bipunctatum in 1989 [25]).

Mechanical vectors use the "R" strategy.

Diseases that are transmitted directly (e.g., through direct contact or a mechanical vector) and that are maintained in nature in a single vertebrate host species are known as orthozoonoses; an example is rabies, which is maintained by canids.

In this study, Musca domestica was evaluated as a potential mechanical vector of anthrax to verify the possible correlation between the fly populations and anthrax epidemics, such as that of Basilicata.

Mechanical, vector and seed transmission have not been demonstrated.

Also suppose that a mutant strain arises that produces a viremia high enough for mechanical vector transmission.

One possibility would be to examine more closely mechanical vector transmission in immunodeficiency viruses of other species.