Vektor (epidemiologi)

Nyamuk yang baru sajak selepas mendapatkan darah daripada manusia (perhatikan titisan darah dikeluarkan sebagai lebihan). Nyamuk ialah vektor untuk beberapa penyakit, paling ketara malaria.

Dalam epidemiologi, vektor ialah mana-mana agen (orang, haiwan atau mikroorganisma) yang membawa dan memindahkan patogen berjangkit ke dalam organisma hidup lain.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Lihat juga

Bacaan lanjut

David Quammen SPILLOVER: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic Oktober 2012. W. W. Norton^[4]

Nota kaki

^ WordNet Search
^ Last, James, penyunting (2001). A Dictionary of Epidemiology. New York: Akhbar Universiti Oxford. m/s. 185. ISBN 978-0-19-514169-6. OCLC 207797812.
^ Roberts, Larry S.; John, Janovy; Gerald D., Schmidt (2008). Foundations of Parasitology. McGraw Hill. ISBN 978-0-07-302827-9. OCLC 226356765.
^ Planet of the Ape: ‘Between Man and Beast,’ 4 April 2013 New York Times

Rujukan

Pawan, J.L. (1936). "Transmission of the Paralytic Rabies in Trinidad of the Vampire Bat: Desmodus rotundus murinus Wagner, 1840." Annual Tropical Medicine and Parasitol, 30, April 8, 1936:137-156.
Pawan, J.L. "Rabies in the Vampire Bat of Trinidad with Special Reference to the Clinical Course and the Latency of Infection." Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parisitology. Vol. 30, No. 4. Disember, 1936

[1] WordNet Search

[Epi_dictionary_Last_2001-2] Last, James, penyunting (2001). A Dictionary of Epidemiology. New York: Akhbar Universiti Oxford. m/s. 185. ISBN 978-0-19-514169-6. OCLC 207797812.

[3] Roberts, Larry S.; John, Janovy; Gerald D., Schmidt (2008). Foundations of Parasitology. McGraw Hill. ISBN 978-0-07-302827-9. OCLC 226356765.

[4] Planet of the Ape: ‘Between Man and Beast,’ 4 April 2013 New York Times

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