Vectors and transmission
What Vectors and transmission means in Combined Science GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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The protists are transmitted to humans by the bite of an infected mosquito, which acts as a vector carrying the pathogen from one host to another.
The mosquito is a vector that carries the malarial protist between human hosts, and transmission requires the mosquito vector.
Topics that use Vectors and transmission
- Protist diseases (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Disease prevention and control
- Prevention and control of disease
- Protist diseases
- Life cycles of pathogens
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