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Disease Vectors

Known as: Vector (Infectious Agent), Vector, Infectious Disease Vectors 
An invertebrate animal (e.g., tick, mite, mosquito, bloodsucking fly) capable of transmitting an infectious agent among vertebrates.
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Arthropod VectorsArthropod-borne disease, unspecifiedBranchiopodaCommunicable Disease Control

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Class Bivalvia

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disease transmission

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Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
In vivo targeting of tumor endothelial cells by systemic delivery of lentiviral vectors.
Tumor angiogenesis is a rate-limiting factor for tumor growth, and the endothelial cells of tumor vessels display specific… 
Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
IL-12 gene therapy protects mice in lethal Klebsiella pneumonia.
IL-12 is a proinflammatory cytokine that has recently been shown to have beneficial effects in the setting of acquired host… 
Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
Fibronectin improves transduction of reconstituting hematopoietic stem cells by retroviral vectors: evidence of direct viral binding to chymotryptic carboxy-terminal fragments.
Efficient transduction of reconstituting hematopoletic stem cells (HSC) is currently only possible by cocultivation of target… 
Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Addition of a short peptide ligand to the adenovirus fiber protein.
A major concern associated with the use of recombinant adenoviral vectors is that viral receptors are found on the surface of… 
Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Intratracheal gene delivery with adenoviral vector induces elevated systemic IgG and mucosal IgA antibodies to adenovirus and beta-galactosidase.
One major concern about using adenoviral vectors for repetitive gene delivery to lung epithelial cells is the induction of an… 
Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
Retroviral vector-mediated transduction of K-ras antisense RNA into human lung cancer cells inhibits expression of the malignant phenotype.
A retroviral vector system was developed to transduce a K-ras antisense construct efficiently into human cancer cells. A 2-kb… 
Highly Cited
1988
Highly Cited
1988
A heat shock operon in Coxiella burnetti produces a major antigen homologous to a protein in both mycobacteria and Escherichia coli
A gene library from the DNA of Coxiella burnetii has been constructed in the cosmid vector pHC79. A particular clone, pJB196… 
Highly Cited
1987
Highly Cited
1987
A new shuttle cosmid vector, pKC505, for streptomycetes: its use in the cloning of three different spiramycin-resistance genes from a Streptomyces ambofaciens library.
Highly Cited
1984
Highly Cited
1984
Characterization of an Endogenous Plasmid and Development of Cloning Vectors and a Transformation System in Brevibacterium lactofermentum
A cryptic plasmid, pBL1 of 4.3 kb, has been found in lysine-producing Brevibacterium lactofermentum strains BL0, BL70, BL74 and… 
Highly Cited
1981
Highly Cited
1981
Specific-purpose plasmid cloning vectors. I. Low copy number, temperature-sensitive, mobilization-defective pSC101-derived containment vectors.
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