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Descriptor
English
:
Disease Reservoirs
Descriptor
Spanish
:
Reservorios de Enfermedades
Descriptor
Portuguese
:
Reservatórios de Doenças
Tree Number:
N06.850.295
Definition
English
:
Animate or inanimate sources which normally harbor disease-causing organisms and thus serve as potential sources of
disease outbreaks
.
Reservoirs
are distinguished from vectors (
DISEASE VECTORS
) and carriers, which are agents of
disease
transmission rather than continuing sources of potential
disease outbreaks.
Indexing Annotation
English
:
differentiate from
DISEASE VECTORS
:
reservoirs
can be animate or inanimate (like
swamps
, housedust, etc.)
See Related
English
:
Carrier State
Disease Vectors
Zoonoses
History Note
English
:
67(65)
Allowable Qualifiers
English
:
CL
classification
MI
microbiology
PS
parasitology
SN
statistics & numerical data
VE
veterinary
VI
virology
Record Number:
22151
Unique Identifier:
D004197
Occurrence in VHL
:
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