reservoir host in a sentence
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- As of 2005, three types of fruit bats ( " Hypsignathus monstrosus ", " Epomops franqueti ", and " Myonycteris torquata " ) have been identified as being in contact with EBOV . They are now suspected to represent the EBOV reservoir hosts.
- Another key elucidation based on his work is that infected people are not needed to maintain the natural transmission cycle of the " leishmania " protozoan parasite; viz ., the natural transmission cycle is sustainable by means of animal reservoir hosts along with sandflies.
- There is also evidence to suggest that strains of " Syngamus trachea " from wild bird reservoir hosts may be less effective in domestic birds; if they have an earthworm transport host rather than direct infections via ingestion of L3s, or eggs containing L3s.
- This may be because there are neither long-tailed nor pig-tailed macaques ( the reservoir hosts of " P . knowlesi " ) in Africa, and many West Africans lack the Duffy antigen-a protein on the surface of the red blood cell that the parasite uses to invade.