In contrast to its benefits, sexual behavior can be a disease vector.

Typhoid Mary would have nothing on me as a disease vector.

But ordinary disease vectors don't seem to have anything to do with it.

No, but lodging a false report of a disease vector definitely is.

One negative effect is that the reservoirs can become breeding grounds for disease vectors.

It is known to act as a disease vector.

"I believe," Selar said, "he has just provided us with the source of the disease vector."

By 1898 his interest in ticks as disease vectors had been awakened.

"Crustaceans aren't much of a problem as disease vectors."

Public health measures were ineffective because the role of the mosquito as a disease vector was then unknown.