reservoir host in a sentence
Examples
- "O . longicaudatus " is the principal reservoir host of Andes virus ( ANDV ), which causes most cases of hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome in South America.
- Some species such as " O . longicaudatus " are the principal reservoir host of certain hantaviruses which are harmless to rodents but can cause disease in humans.
- The resistance of a genospecies of Lyme disease spirochetes to the bacteriolytic activities of the alternative complement pathway of various host species may determine its reservoir host association.
- The resistance of a genospecies of Lyme disease spirochetes to the bacteriolytic activities of the alternative immune complement system of various host species may determine its reservoir host association.
- Dogs and rodents serve as the primary animal reservoir hosts in the sylvatic cycle, but people with chronic PKDL can also serve as important reservoir hosts for cutaneous leishmaniasis.
- Dogs and rodents serve as the primary animal reservoir hosts in the sylvatic cycle, but people with chronic PKDL can also serve as important reservoir hosts for cutaneous leishmaniasis.
- Previously it was believed that rodents were the principal reservoir hosts, but field trapping has discovered hantavirus species in insectivoire bats, shrews, and moles ( Soricidae and Talpidae ).
- A population of bobaks living in the Ural Mountains is believed to have served as a reservoir host for the bubonic plague epidemic that struck western Russia at the end of the 19th century.
- It has been speculated that the extinction of passenger pigeons may have increased the prevalence of tick-borne lyme disease in modern times as white-footed mice are the reservoir hosts of " Borrelia burgdorferi ".
- Diseases associated with this genus include : inapparent infection in their reservoir hosts ( wildebeest for alHV-1 and sheep for ovHV-2 ), but fatal lymphoproliferative disease when they infect MCF-susceptible hosts, including cattle, deer, bison, water buffalo and pigs.