It is commonly accepted that insects could possibly be a mechanical vector for transferring pathogens. Especially now larvae ...

This project builds on recent work reporting tick transmission of relapsing fever spirochetes and genome sequencing of both the pathogen and tick vector. We have utilized both next generation and ...

but it also informs pathogen/vector evolution and climate-based predictive modeling of malaria distribution.” ...

Diseases caused by pathogens are called communicable diseases ... like Escherichia coli which is a cause of food poisoning. Vector Any organism that can spread a disease is called a vector.