MEDICINE MCQ
INFECTIOUS DISEASES
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Question
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Organisms that transmit pathogens are known as ____
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parasite
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antigen
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virus
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vector
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Explanation:
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: -Vectors such as mosquitoes, fleas, and ticks may carry an infectious agent through purely mechanical means or may support growth or changes in the agent. Examples of mechanical transmission are flies carrying Shigella on their appendages and fleas carrying Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of plague, in their gut.
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