| zoonosis | <disease> The transmission of a disease from an animal or nonhuman species to humans. The natural reservoir is a nonhuman animal. Examples include: rabies, psittacosis (a viral disease of birds). (12 Nov 1997) |
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| direct zoonosis | A zoonosis transmitted between animal and humans from an infected to a susceptible host by contact, by airborne droplets or droplet nuclei, or by some vehicle of transmission; the agent requires a single vertebrate host for completion of its life cycle and does not develop or show significant change during transmission; may include anthropozoonoses (rabies), zooanthroponoses (amoebiasis), and amphixenoses (certain streptococcoses). (05 Mar 2000) |
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