Due to their diet, these adult flies can be a mechanical vector for pathogens.
2.
Flies can act as mechanical vectors for Toxocara, but most infections occur without a vector.
3.
Other than intermediate hosts, no mention of other biological or mechanical vectors has been made.
4.
In the epidemiological sense, blowflies are of concern due to being possible mechanical vectors of disease.
5.
Apart from hand-to-mouth infection, shigellosis is transmitted through fomites, water and mechanical vectors like houseflies.
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A mechanical vector picks up an infectious agent on the outside of its body and transmits it in a passive manner.
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An example of a mechanical vector is a housefly, which lands on cow dung, contaminating its appendages with bacteria from the feces, and then lands on food prior to consumption.
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While there are no biological or mechanical vectors for the adult or larval form of any " Echinococcus " species, coprophagic flies, carrion birds and arthropods can act as mechanical vectors for the eggs.
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While there are no biological or mechanical vectors for the adult or larval form of any " Echinococcus " species, coprophagic flies, carrion birds and arthropods can act as mechanical vectors for the eggs.
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""'Hippobosca longipennis " "'( Diptera : Hippoboscidae ), the dog fly, louse fly, or blind fly, is an obligate biological or mechanical vector for other pathogens.