vector infection
1Infection control — is the discipline concerned with preventing nosocomial or healthcare associated infection, a practical (rather than academic) sub discipline of epidemiology. It is an essential, though often under recognized and under supported, part of the… …
2Vector (disease) — Vector is a phrase used in parasitology and entomology to describe a special type of intermediate host for parasites. A vector is not only required as part of the parasite s development, but it also delivers the parasite directly to subsequent… …
3Infection — The growth of a parasitic organism within the body. (A parasitic organism is one that lives on or in another organism and draws its nourishment therefrom.) A person with an infection has another organism (a germ ) growing within him, drawing its… …
4vector — Synonyms and related words: aerial infection, air line, airborne infection, axis, azimuth, beeline, biological vector, carrier, chord, communicability, compass bearing, compass direction, contagion, contagiousness, contamination, course,… …
5infection — Synonyms and related words: abomination, adulteration, aerial infection, afflatus, airborne infection, animating spirit, animation, animus, atrocity, bad, bane, befouling, befoulment, besmirchment, blight, carrier, communicability, contagion,… …
6Vector (biology) — In epidemiology, a vector is an organism that does not cause disease itself but which transmits infection by conveying pathogens from one host to another. A classic example is the anopheles mosquito which acts as a vector for the disease malaria… …
7Vector (epidemiology) — The mosquito is a vector for Malaria. In epidemiology, a vector is any agent (person, animal or microorganism) that carries and transmits an infectious agent.[1] …
8Infection — , or turkey infection A disease similar to turkey affliction. A turkey infection starts gradually when the hunter first goes to a calling contest, picks up a mouth yelper or begins to play with a diaphragm caller. Then he starts listening… …
9Vector, cloning — A DNA molecule originating from a virus, a plasmid (see below) or the cell of a higher organism into which another DNA fragment can be integrated without loss of the vector s (carrier s) capacity for self replication. Cloning vectors are used to… …
10vector-borne — Denoting a disease or infection that is transmitted by an invertebrate vector. * * * vec·tor borne (vekґtər born″) spread or transmitted from one host to another by a vector, as an infectious disease …
