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Disease carrier could refer to:

  • Asymptomatic carrier, a person or organism infected with an infectious disease agent, but displays no symptoms
  • Genetic carrier, a person or organism that has inherited a genetic trait or mutation, but displays no symptoms

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Disease carrier

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Disease carrier could refer to: Asymptomatic carrier, a person or organism infected with an infectious disease agent, but displays no symptoms Genetic...

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Asymptomatic carrier

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unaffected by the pathogen, carriers can transmit it to others or develop symptoms in later stages of the disease. Asymptomatic carriers play a critical role...

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Carrier

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molecule Disease carrier in medicine Aircraft carrier, a warship primarily hosting fixed-wing aircraft Carrier recovery in telecommunications Carrier signal...

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Tarbagan marmot

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The tarbagan marmot (Marmota sibirica) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is found in China (Inner Mongolia and Heilongjiang), northern...

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Tropical disease

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common disease carrier, or vector. These insects may carry a parasite, bacterium or virus that is infectious to humans and animals. Most often disease is...

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Hereditary carrier

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mutation but usually does not display that trait or show symptoms of the disease. Carriers are, however, able to pass the allele onto their offspring, who may...

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Typhoid fever

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first known example of an asymptomatic carrier of an infectious disease, making typhoid fever the first known disease being transmissible through asymptomatic...

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Mary Mallon

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aimed at improving the status of disease carriers and limiting their impact on society. Other healthy typhoid carriers identified in the first quarter...

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Haemophilia in European royalty

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was not known to have a family history of the disease, although it is possible that she was a carrier, but among her 3 children only Victoria received...

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Disease

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diseases can be transmitted, e.g. by hand-to-mouth contact with infectious material on surfaces, by bites of insects or other carriers of the disease...

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Medical genetics of Jews

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storage diseases, particularly in the form of lipid storage disorders. Compared to other ethnic groups, they more frequently act as carriers of mucolipidosis...

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Sleeping Sickness Commission

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trypanosomiasis in Africa at the turn of the 20th century. The outbreak of the disease started in 1900 in Uganda, which was at the time a protectorate of the...

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Carrier testing

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Carrier testing is a type of genetic testing that is used to determine if a person is a carrier for specific autosomal recessive diseases. This kind of...

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Marburg virus disease

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are very similar to those of Ebola virus disease (EVD). Egyptian fruit bats are believed to be the normal carrier in nature and Marburg virus RNA has been...

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Genetic disorder

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having daughters who are carriers of one copy of the mutated gene. X-linked recessive conditions include the serious diseases hemophilia A, Duchenne muscular...

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Sickle cell disease

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are also referred to as carriers. Diagnosis is by a blood test, and some countries test all babies at birth for the disease. Diagnosis is also possible...

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Disease vector

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threat of at least one vector borne disease. Airborne disease Asymptomatic carrier Fomite Globalization and disease Insect vectors of human pathogens Insect...

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Portuguese Water Dog

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"A" dogs do not carry the gene. "Carriers" or "B" dogs carry one copy of the gene and will not express the disease, but pass the gene to 50% of their...

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Leukodystrophy

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prevalence of Canavan disease in the Jewish population. One in 40 individuals of Ashkenazi Jewish descent are carriers of Canavan disease. This extrapolates...

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ALS

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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as motor neurone disease (MND) or Lou Gehrig's disease in the United States, is a rare but terminal neurodegenerative...

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Menkes disease

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always from the mother. Even though the disease is more common in males, females can still be a carrier of the disease. As the result of a mutation in the...

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Haemophilia

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children was a carrier or not. If a male has the disease and has children with a female who is not a carrier, his daughters will be carriers of haemophilia...

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French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle

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is the tenth French aircraft carrier, the first French nuclear-powered surface vessel, and the only nuclear-powered carrier completed outside of the United...

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