CLINICAL MEDICINE

Detailed explanation-1: -A vector is a living organism that transmits an infectious agent from an infected animal to a human or another animal. Vectors are frequently arthropods, such as mosquitoes, ticks, flies, fleas and lice.

Detailed explanation-2: -A vector is an arthropod – a member of a group including insects and arachnids – that transmits a pathogen (a virus, bacterium or parasite). It acquires this pathogen by feeding on an infected host, and then transmits it to other individuals.

Detailed explanation-3: -Vectors are living organisms that can transmit infectious pathogens between humans, or from animals to humans.

Detailed explanation-4: -Vector-Borne Transmission Vectors are living organisms that can transfer pathogenic microorganisms to other animals or locations and include arthropod vectors (e.g., mosquitoes, fleas, ticks) and rodents or other vermin.

Detailed explanation-5: -Vector is an organism which spreads the disease from one person to another. An example is a mosquito, which spreads malaria from one person to another. Pathogen is an organism which causes disease in an organism. The malarial parasite causing malaria is the pathogen here.