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Cows are natural reservoirs of African trypanosomiasis. In infectious disease ecology and epidemiology, a natural reservoir, also known as a disease reservoir or a reservoir of infection, is the population of organisms or the specific environment in which an infectious pathogen naturally lives and reproduces, or upon which the pathogen primarily depends for its survival.
Disease reservoir may refer to: Natural reservoir , the long-term host of the pathogen of an infectious disease Fomite , any inanimate object or substance capable of carrying infectious organisms
Biochemical tests used in the identification of infectious agents include the detection of metabolic or enzymatic products characteristic of a particular infectious agent. Since bacteria ferment carbohydrates in patterns characteristic of their genus and species , the detection of fermentation products is commonly used in bacterial identification.
Epidemics of infectious disease are generally caused by several factors including a change in the ecology of the host population (e.g., increased stress or increase in the density of a vector species), a genetic change in the pathogen reservoir or the introduction of an emerging pathogen to a host population (by movement of pathogen or host).
The bumblebee is a potential reservoir for several pollinator parasites. Commercially bred bumblebees used to pollinate greenhouses can be reservoirs for several pollinator parasites including the protozoans Crithidia bombi, and Apicystis bombi, [10] the microsporidians Nosema bombi and Nosema ceranae, [10] [11] plus viruses such as Deformed wing virus and the tracheal mites Locustacarus ...
Infectious disease expert Dr. Stephen Liang described the risk of potential public health threats from the discovery of a dead person in Highland Park reservoir as “exceedingly low ...
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The animal reservoir of the virus maintains a suitable virus level in the blood to allow the infection of a vector mosquito. A bridge-vector mosquito such as Aedes albopictus , which can survive in an urban area and spread to rural, semi-rural, and forest areas could carry the virus to a sylvatic environment.