Natural reservoir, the Glossary

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1. 83 relations: Asymptomatic, Avian influenza, Blastomycosis, Bordetella pertussis, Borrelia burgdorferi, Campylobacter, Campylobacteriosis, Cat-scratch disease, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Chagas disease, Cholera, Coccidioidomycosis, Columbia University, Commensalism, Copepod, Culling, Disease ecology, Disease vector, Drop (liquid), Ebola, Ebolavirus, EcoHealth Alliance, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Epidemic, Epidemiology, Fomite, Gonorrhea, Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, Harvard University, Henipavirus, Histoplasmosis, Host (biology), Infection, Intracellular parasite, Legionella pneumophila, Legionnaires' disease, Lyme disease, Lyssavirus, Machine learning, Malaria, Measles, Megabat, Menangle pararubulavirus, Metabiota, Microorganism, Morbillivirus, Mumps, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Nipah virus, Parasitism, ... Expand index (33 more) »

2. Disease ecology

Asymptomatic

Asymptomatic (or clinically silent) is an adjective categorising the medical conditions (i.e., injuries or diseases) that patients carry but without experiencing their symptoms, despite an explicit diagnosis (e.g., a positive medical test).

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Avian influenza

Avian influenza, also known as avian flu or bird flu, is a disease caused by the influenza A virus, which primarily affects birds but can sometimes affect mammals including humans.

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Blastomycosis

Blastomycosis, also known as Gilchrist's disease, is a fungal infection, typically of the lungs, which can spread to brain, stomach, intestine and skin, where it appears as crusting purplish warty plaques with a roundish bumpy edge and central depression.

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Bordetella pertussis

Bordetella pertussis is a Gram-negative, aerobic, pathogenic, encapsulated coccobacillus bacterium of the genus Bordetella, and the causative agent of pertussis or whooping cough.

See Natural reservoir and Bordetella pertussis

Borrelia burgdorferi

Borrelia burgdorferi is a bacterial species of the spirochete class in the genus Borrelia, and is one of the causative agents of Lyme disease in humans.

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Campylobacter

Campylobacter is a type of bacteria that can cause a diarrheal disease in people.

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Campylobacteriosis

Campylobacteriosis is among the most common infections caused by a bacterium in humans, often as a foodborne illness.

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Cat-scratch disease

Cat-scratch disease (CSD) is an infectious disease that most often results from a scratch or bite of a cat.

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the national public health agency of the United States.

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Chagas disease

Chagas disease, also known as American trypanosomiasis, is a tropical parasitic disease caused by Trypanosoma cruzi.

See Natural reservoir and Chagas disease

Cholera

Cholera is an infection of the small intestine by some strains of the bacterium Vibrio cholerae.

See Natural reservoir and Cholera

Coccidioidomycosis

Coccidioidomycosis, commonly known as cocci, Valley fever, as well as California fever, desert rheumatism, or San Joaquin Valley fever, is a mammalian fungal disease caused by Coccidioides immitis or Coccidioides posadasii.

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Columbia University

Columbia University, officially Columbia University in the City of New York, is a private Ivy League research university in New York City.

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Commensalism

Commensalism is a long-term biological interaction (symbiosis) in which members of one species gain benefits while those of the other species neither benefit nor are harmed.

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Copepod

Copepods (meaning "oar-feet") are a group of small crustaceans found in nearly every freshwater and saltwater habitat.

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Culling

Culling is the process of segregating organisms from a group according to desired or undesired characteristics.

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Disease ecology

Disease ecology is a sub-discipline of ecology concerned with the mechanisms, patterns, and effects of host-pathogen interactions, particularly those of infectious diseases. Natural reservoir and disease ecology are epidemiology.

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Disease vector

In epidemiology, a disease vector is any living agent that carries and transmits an infectious pathogen such as a parasite or microbe, to another living organism. Natural reservoir and disease vector are epidemiology.

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Drop (liquid)

A drop or droplet is a small column of liquid, bounded completely or almost completely by free surfaces.

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Ebola

Ebola, also known as Ebola virus disease (EVD) and Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF), is a viral hemorrhagic fever in humans and other primates, caused by ebolaviruses.

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Ebolavirus

The genus Ebolavirus (- or; - or) is a virological taxon included in the family Filoviridae (filament-shaped viruses), order Mononegavirales.

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EcoHealth Alliance

EcoHealth Alliance is an US-based non-governmental organization with a stated mission of protecting people, animals, and the environment from emerging infectious diseases.

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Emerging Infectious Diseases

Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID) is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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Epidemic

An epidemic (from Greek ἐπί epi "upon or above" and δῆμος demos "people") is the rapid spread of disease to a large number of hosts in a given population within a short period of time.

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Epidemiology

Epidemiology is the study and analysis of the distribution (who, when, and where), patterns and determinants of health and disease conditions in a defined population.

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Fomite

A fomite or fomes is any inanimate object that, when contaminated with or exposed to infectious agents (such as pathogenic bacteria, viruses or fungi), can transfer disease to a new host. Natural reservoir and fomite are epidemiology.

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Gonorrhea

Gonorrhoea or gonorrhea, colloquially known as the clap, is a sexually transmitted infection (STI) caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae.

See Natural reservoir and Gonorrhea

Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome

Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) is one of two potentially fatal syndromes of zoonotic origin caused by species of hantavirus.

See Natural reservoir and Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Henipavirus

Henipavirus is a genus of negative-strand RNA viruses in the family Paramyxoviridae, order Mononegavirales containing six established species, and numerous others still under study.

See Natural reservoir and Henipavirus

Histoplasmosis

Histoplasmosis is a fungal infection caused by Histoplasma capsulatum.

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Host (biology)

In biology and medicine, a host is a larger organism that harbours a smaller organism; whether a parasitic, a mutualistic, or a commensalist guest (symbiont). Natural reservoir and host (biology) are disease ecology.

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Infection

An infection is the invasion of tissues by pathogens, their multiplication, and the reaction of host tissues to the infectious agent and the toxins they produce. Natural reservoir and infection are epidemiology.

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Intracellular parasite

Intracellular parasites are microparasites that are capable of growing and reproducing inside the cells of a host.

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Legionella pneumophila

Legionella pneumophila is an aerobic, pleomorphic, flagellated, non-spore-forming, Gram-negative bacterium of the genus Legionella.

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Legionnaires' disease

Legionnaires' disease is a form of atypical pneumonia caused by any species of Legionella bacteria, quite often Legionella pneumophila.

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Lyme disease

Lyme disease, also known as Lyme borreliosis, is a tick-borne disease caused by species of Borrelia bacteria, transmitted by blood-feeding ticks in the genus Ixodes.

See Natural reservoir and Lyme disease

Lyssavirus

Lyssavirus (from the Greek λύσσα lyssa "rage, fury, rabies" and the Latin vīrus) is a genus of RNA viruses in the family Rhabdoviridae, order Mononegavirales.

See Natural reservoir and Lyssavirus

Machine learning

Machine learning (ML) is a field of study in artificial intelligence concerned with the development and study of statistical algorithms that can learn from data and generalize to unseen data and thus perform tasks without explicit instructions.

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Malaria

Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease that affects vertebrates.

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Measles

Measles is a highly contagious, vaccine-preventable infectious disease caused by measles virus.

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Megabat

Megabats constitute the family Pteropodidae of the order Chiroptera (bats).

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Menangle pararubulavirus

Menangle pararubulavirus, also called Menangle virus, is a virus that infects pigs, humans and bats.

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Metabiota is a San Francisco startup that compiles data from around the world to predict disease outbreaks.

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Microorganism

A microorganism, or microbe, is an organism of microscopic size, which may exist in its single-celled form or as a colony of cells. The possible existence of unseen microbial life was suspected from ancient times, such as in Jain scriptures from sixth century BC India. The scientific study of microorganisms began with their observation under the microscope in the 1670s by Anton van Leeuwenhoek.

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Morbillivirus

Morbillivirus is a genus of viruses in the order Mononegavirales, in the family Paramyxoviridae.

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Mumps

Mumps is a highly contagious viral disease caused by the mumps virus.

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Neisseria gonorrhoeae

Neisseria gonorrhoeae, also known as gonococcus (singular) or gonococci (plural), is a species of Gram-negative diplococci bacteria isolated by Albert Neisser in 1879.

See Natural reservoir and Neisseria gonorrhoeae

Nipah virus

Nipah virus is a bat-borne, zoonotic virus that causes Nipah virus infection in humans and other animals, a disease with a very high mortality rate (40-75%).

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Parasitism

Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life. Natural reservoir and Parasitism are disease ecology.

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Pathogen

In biology, a pathogen (πάθος, "suffering", "passion" and -γενής, "producer of"), in the oldest and broadest sense, is any organism or agent that can produce disease.

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Pathogen transmission

In medicine, public health, and biology, transmission is the passing of a pathogen causing communicable disease from an infected host individual or group to a particular individual or group, regardless of whether the other individual was previously infected.

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Plasmodium falciparum

Plasmodium falciparum is a unicellular protozoan parasite of humans, and the deadliest species of Plasmodium that causes malaria in humans.

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Polio

Poliomyelitis, commonly shortened to polio, is an infectious disease caused by the poliovirus.

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Population

Population is the term typically used to refer to the number of people in a single area.

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Predict (USAID)

Predict was an epidemiological research program funded by a United States Agency for International Development (USAID) grant and led by UC Davis' One Health Institute.

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Psittacosis

Psittacosis—also known as parrot fever, and ornithosis—is a zoonotic infectious disease in humans caused by a bacterium called Chlamydia psittaci and contracted from infected parrots, such as macaws, cockatiels, and budgerigars, and from pigeons, sparrows, ducks, hens, gulls and many other species of birds.

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Rabies

Rabies is a viral disease that causes encephalitis in humans and other mammals.

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Rabies virus

Rabies virus, scientific name Rabies lyssavirus, is a neurotropic virus that causes rabies in animals, including humans.

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Refuge (ecology)

A refuge is a concept in ecology, in which an organism obtains protection from predation by hiding in an area where it is inaccessible or cannot easily be found. Natural reservoir and refuge (ecology) are disease ecology.

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Salmonella

Salmonella is a genus of rod-shaped (bacillus) gram-negative bacteria of the family Enterobacteriaceae.

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Betacoronavirus pandemicum (also known as Severe acute respiratory syndrome–related coronavirus, abbreviated as SARSr-CoV or SARS-CoV)The terms SARSr-CoV and SARS-CoV are sometimes used interchangeably, especially prior to the discovery of SARS-CoV-2.

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Schistosoma

Schistosoma is a genus of trematodes, commonly known as blood flukes.

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Schistosomiasis

Schistosomiasis, also known as snail fever, bilharzia, and Katayama fever, is a disease caused by parasitic flatworms called schistosomes.

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Sexually transmitted infection

A sexually transmitted infection (STI), also referred to as a sexually transmitted disease (STD) and the older term venereal disease (VD), is an infection that is spread by sexual activity, especially vaginal intercourse, anal sex, oral sex, or sometimes manual sex.

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Shellfish

Shellfish is a colloquial and fisheries term for exoskeleton-bearing aquatic invertebrates used as food, including various species of molluscs, crustaceans, and echinoderms.

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Sin Nombre orthohantavirus

Sin Nombre orthohantavirus (SNV) (from Spanish, meaning "without a name"), a member of the genus Orthohantavirus, is the prototypical etiologic agent of hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome (HCPS).

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Smallpox

Smallpox was an infectious disease caused by variola virus (often called smallpox virus), which belongs to the genus Orthopoxvirus.

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Smithsonian Institution

The Smithsonian Institution, or simply the Smithsonian, is a group of museums, education and research centers, the largest such complex in the world, created by the U.S. government "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge." Founded on August 10, 1846, it operates as a trust instrumentality and is not formally a part of any of the three branches of the federal government.

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Snail

A snail is a shelled gastropod.

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Tioman virus

Tioman virus is a paramyxovirus first isolated from the urine of island fruit bats (Pteropus hypomelanus) on Tioman Island, Malaysia in 2000.

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Trichinosis

Trichinosis, also known as trichinellosis, is a parasitic disease caused by roundworms of the Trichinella type.

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Trypanosoma cruzi

Trypanosoma cruzi is a species of parasitic euglenoids.

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United States Agency for International Development

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is an independent agency of the United States government that is primarily responsible for administering civilian foreign aid and development assistance.

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University of California, Davis

The University of California, Davis (UC Davis, UCD, or Davis) is a public land-grant research university in Davis, California, United States.

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Vaccine

A vaccine is a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular infectious or malignant disease.

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Vibrio cholerae

Vibrio cholerae is a species of Gram-negative, facultative anaerobe and comma-shaped bacteria.

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The white-footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus) is a rodent native to North America from southern Canada to the southwestern United States and Mexico.

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Whooping cough

Whooping cough, also known as pertussis or the 100-day cough, is a highly contagious, vaccine-preventable bacterial disease.

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Wildlife Conservation Society

The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) is a global 501(c)(3) non-governmental organization headquartered at the Bronx Zoo in New York City, that states its mission as saving "wildlife and wild places across the globe".

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Zika virus

Zika virus (ZIKV; pronounced or) is a member of the virus family Flaviviridae.

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Zoonosis

A zoonosis (plural zoonoses) or zoonotic disease is an infectious disease of humans caused by a pathogen (an infectious agent, such as a bacterium, virus, parasite, or prion) that can jump from a non-human (usually a vertebrate) to a human and vice versa. Natural reservoir and zoonosis are disease ecology.

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Zooplankton

Zooplankton are the animal (or heterotrophic) component of the planktonic community (the "zoo-" prefix comes from), having to consume other organisms to thrive.

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See also

Disease ecology

• Basic reproduction number
• Climate change and infectious diseases
• Climate change in American Samoa
• Disease ecology
• Ecological effects of biodiversity
• Health geography
• Host (biology)
• List of animals that can get SARS-CoV-2
• List of mammals that can get H5N1
• Madagascan rousette
• Natural reservoir
• Naval Medical Research Unit South
• Necromeny
• Parasitism
• Refuge (ecology)
• SARS-CoV-2 in mink
• SARS-CoV-2 in white-tailed deer
• Sapronosis
• Source–sink dynamics
• Threshold host density
• Zoonosis

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_reservoir

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