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Active Carrier Definition:

  • An individual who has an overt clinical case of a disease and who can transmit the infection to others.

    Prescott's Microbiology 9th Edition by Joanne Willey, Linda Sherwood, Christopher J. Woolverton



Active Carrier Notes:

An active carrier is an individual who is infected and can transmit the disease to other people. These type of carriers are not presenting any signs and symptoms of the infection and are called as asymptomatic carriers.

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