vector

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When AI systems are manipulated into performing malicious actions, critical details must be shared: attack vectors, guardrail failures, and forensic signatures that might help others detect similar intrusions.

From The Wall Street Journal

Health care workers who resorted to reusing masks and gloves to slow transmission of a respiratory illness may have created a vector for an organism that traveled on surfaces.

From Scientific American

Today, its globally invasive descendants act as the main disease vector for the yellow fever, Zika, chikungunya, and dengue viruses, collectively causing hundreds of millions of infections each year.

From Science Magazine

A single dose of the J&J vaccine — which uses a different technology, called an adenovirus vector — has been shown to provide the equivalent response to the second dose of an mRNA vaccine, he said.

From Seattle Times

To that point, data are emerging that for people who received an initial adenovirus vector vaccine, a second dose with an mRNA vaccine would enhance immunity.

From Washington Post