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Study Carrier lecture notes PDF with microbiology definitions and explanation to study What is Carrier?. Study carrier explanation with microbiology terms to review microbiology course for online degree programs.

Carrier Definitions:

  1. An infected individual who is a potential source of infection for others and plays an important role in the epidemiology of a disease.

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



  2. A person who harbors infections and inconspicuously spreads them to others.

    Foundations in Microbiology by Kathleen Park Talaro, Arthur Talaro



Carrier Notes:

Carriers or hereditary carriers are people or organisms, which have inherited an allele (recessive) for a mutation or genetic trait but does not usually show any symptoms or display the traits of that allele.

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