Prescott's Microbiology
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Author: Joanne Willey, Linda Sherwood Adjunt Professor Lecturer, Christopher J. Woolverton Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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In the vectors borne disease transmission, the microbes need a carrier to spread infections. The vectors act as a carrier in transmitting the infection from the infected individual to healthy individual or directly transmit disease to the healthy individual. For example, mosquito, ticks, bats, and dogs.
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Prescott's Microbiology
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