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    This document discusses the different types of reservoirs for infectious agents, including humans, animals, and the non-living environment. It provides examples of diseases with human reservoirs like measles, mumps, and hepatitis B which are transmitted between people. Animal reservoirs transmit zoonotic diseases from animals to humans such as anthrax, plague, and rabies. The non-living environment can also be a reservoir, with fungi living in soil and Legionella bacteria found in water systems.

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    This document discusses the different types of reservoirs for infectious agents, including humans, animals, and the non-living environment. It provides examples of diseases with human reservoirs like measles, mumps, and hepatitis B which are transmitted between people. Animal reservoirs transmit zoonotic diseases from animals to humans such as anthrax, plague, and rabies. The non-living environment can also be a reservoir, with fungi living in soil and Legionella bacteria found in water systems.

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    This document discusses the different types of reservoirs for infectious agents, including humans, animals, and the non-living environment. It provides examples of diseases with human reservoirs like measles, mumps, and hepatitis B which are transmitted between people. Animal reservoirs transmit zoonotic diseases from animals to humans such as anthrax, plague, and rabies. The non-living environment can also be a reservoir, with fungi living in soil and Legionella bacteria found in water systems.

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    This document discusses the different types of reservoirs for infectious agents, including humans, animals, and the non-living environment. It provides examples of diseases with human reservoirs like measles, mumps, and hepatitis B which are transmitted between people. Animal reservoirs transmit zoonotic diseases from animals to humans such as anthrax, plague, and rabies. The non-living environment can also be a reservoir, with fungi living in soil and Legionella bacteria found in water systems.

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    Reservoirs of infection;

    from human, animal &


    non living
    By : Adibah & Alya
    RESERVOIRS OF INFECTION

    The reservoir of an infectious agent is the


    habitat in which the agent normally lives,
    grows, and multiplies. Reservoirs include
    humans, animals, and the 'non-living'. The
    reservoir may or may not be the source from
    which an agent is transferred to a host.
    transmission occurs when the agent leaves its reservoir (host)
    through a portal of exit (agent), is conveyed by some mode of
    transmission, and enters through an appropriate portal of entry to
    infect a susceptible host.
    RESERVOIRS OF
    INFECTION

    Non living /
    Human Animal
    Environment
    Reservoir Reservior
    Reservoir
    HUMAN RESERVOIR
    Many common infectious diseases have human reservoirs
    Diseases that are transmitted from person to person
    without intermediaries include the sexually transmitted
    diseases, measles, mumps, streptococcal infection, and
    many respiratory pathogens
    Human reservoirs may or may not show the effects of
    illness.
    A person is a carrier with inapparent infection who is
    capable of transmitting the pathogen to others.
    HUMAN RESERVOIR
    - Asymptomatic (healthy) carriers are those who never experience
    symptoms despite being infected
    - Incubatory carriers are those who can transmit the agent during
    the incubation period before clinical illness begins.
    - Convalescent carriers are those who have recovered from their
    illness but remain capable of transmitting to others.
    - Chronic carriers are those who continue to harbor a pathogen such
    as hepatitis B virus or Salmonella Typhi, the causative agent of
    typhoid fever, for months or even years after their initial infection.

    Carriers commonly transmit disease because they do not realize they


    are infected, and consequently take no special precautions to
    prevent transmission.
    HUMAN RESERVOIR
    Hepatitis B
    ANIMAL RESERVIOR
    Humans are also subject to diseases that have animal reservoirs.
    Many of these diseases are transmitted from animal to animal, with
    humans as incidental hosts
    The term zoonosis refers to an infectious disease that is transmissible
    under natural conditions from vertebrate animals to humans.
    Long recognized zoonotic diseases include brucellosis (cows and
    pigs), anthrax (sheep), plague (rodents), trichinellosis/trichinosis
    (swine), tularemia (rabbits), and rabies (bats, raccoons, dogs, and
    other mammals).
    Many newly recognized infectious diseases in humans, including
    HIV/AIDS, Ebola infection and SARS, are thought to have emerged
    from animal hosts, although those hosts have not yet been identified.
    ANIMAL RESERVIOR
    ANIMAL RESERVIOR
    Anthrax
    ANIMAL RESERVIOR
    Plague
    ANIMAL RESERVIOR
    NON-LIVING (THE ENVIRONMENT)
    RESERVIOR
    Plants, soil, and water in the environment are also
    reservoirs for some infectious agents.
    Many fungal agents, such as those that cause
    histoplasmosis, live and multiply in the soil.
    Outbreaks of Legionnaires disease are often traced to
    water supplies in cooling towers and evaporative
    condensers, reservoirs for the causative organism
    Legionella pneumophila.
    NON-LIVING (THE ENVIRONMENT)
    RESERVIOR
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