Reservoir

Any person, animal, arthropod, plant, soil, or substance (or combination of these) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies, on which it depends primarily for survival, and in which it reproduces itself in such manner that it can be transmitted to a susceptible vector.

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Authors Institute of Medicine (US) Forum on Microbial Threats.
PublicationTitle Infectious Disease Movement in a Borderless World: Workshop Summary.
PublicationType Report
PublicationYear 2010
Publisher National Academies Press (US)
Website https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK45731/
ZoteroURL https://www.zotero.org/groups/2344323/orion/items/itemKey/ZRJ7B8R3
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Category Epidemiology
ModifiedDefinition false
RelatedTerm reservoir host
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Author taras_guenther
Last Updated 29 April 2020, 02:16 (CEST)
Created 3 September 2019, 13:14 (CEST)