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Insect Vectors  

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Note

  • coord IM with specific insect (IM); specify both infecting organism & vector if pertinent; in the trypanosome-tsetse fly-cow relationship, the fly (not the cow) is the insect vector

Scope note

  • Insects that transmit infective organisms from one host to another or from an inanimate reservoir to an animate host.

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