SCIENCE|natural and applied sciences|life sciences · SOCIAL QUESTIONS|health|medical science
- taisce nádúrtha Tagairt Faomhadh an téarma seo mar chuid de Thionscadal Lex
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- reservoir of infection | natural reservoir | disease reservoir | pathogen reservoir | reservoir
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- Sainmhíniú one or more epidemiologically connected populations or environments in which a pathogen can be permanently maintained and from which infection is transmitted to the target population Tagairt "Haydon DT, Cleaveland S, Taylor LH, Laurenson MK. 'Identifying reservoirs of infection: a conceptual and practical challenge' (12.11.2024). Emerg Infect Dis. 2002 Dec;8(12):1468-73. doi: 10.3201/eid0812.010317. PMID: 12498665; PMCID: PMC2738515."
- Nóta 1) Populations in a reservoir may be the same or a different species as the target and may include vector species. As long as a reservoir constitutes a maintenance community and all populations within the maintenance community are directly or indirectly connected to each other, the size of the reservoir has no upper limit.2) Some reservoirs can be simple and comprise a single nontarget host population (Figure I A). However, they can comprise a more structured set of connected host subpopulations termed ‘maintenance community’. Individually, some of these populations can maintain the pathogen (‘maintenance populations’), whereas others cannot (‘nonmaintenance populations’)