Numerous studies have been conducted to determine if the fly is a mechanical vector of bacteria.

Due to their diet, these adult flies can be a mechanical vector for pathogens.

Other than intermediate hosts, no mention of other biological or mechanical vectors has been made.

The females of this species are heavily attracted to flesh and are potential mechanical vectors.

C. albiceps is thought to be a mechanical vector of various diseases due to its association with filth.

Flies can act as mechanical vectors for Toxocara, but most infections occur without a vector.

In the epidemiological sense, blowflies are of concern due to being possible mechanical vectors of disease.

A mechanical vector picks up an infectious agent on the outside of its body and transmits it in a passive manner.

Anaplasmas require intermediate tick hosts for maturation, and flies may act as mechanical vectors.

Sterile equipment should always be used, as contaminated instruments could act as mechanical vectors for pathogens to enter the body.

Indirect transmission by insects (mechanical vectors).

Apart from hand-to-mouth infection, Shigellosis is transmitted through fomites, water and mechanical vectors like houseflies.

Turkeypox, like all avipoxviruses, is transmitted either through skin contact or by arthropods (typically mosquitos) acting as mechanical vectors.

It is hypothesized that tanapox virus may be transferred from monkeys or another reservoir host to humans by infected arthropods that act as mechanical vectors.

Lucilia illustris larvae have been shown to be a mechanical vector of Clostridium botulinum at levels high enough to cause sickness and even death in pheasants.

Transmission of IBK is through direct contact with mucous membranes and their secretions and indirect contact where flies act as a mechanical vector.

The organism can go through a complete lifecycle in the gut of certain species of ticks but the flies appear to be only a mechanical vector, thus, not as important in maintaining the disease in any given area.

Its bites can be painful and result in skin irritation, it is an intermediate host for the canine and hyaenid filarial parasite Dipetalonema dracunculoides, and it may also be a biological or mechanical vector for other pathogens.

While there are no biological or mechanical vectors for the adult or larval form of any Echinococcus species, coprophagic flies, carrion birds and arthropods can act as mechanical vectors for the eggs.