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reservoir: a standalone construct

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reservoir1 CONSTRUCTDisease reservoirHAYDON · PATHOGEN HOST

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Epidemiology

the population, species or environment in which a pathogen is maintained and from which it spreads to a target host.

The population, species, or environment in which a pathogen is maintained over time and from which it can spread to a target host of concern, such as an animal population that carries a virus that spills over into people. Haydon and colleagues' 2002 Identifying Reservoirs of Infection: A Conceptual and Practical Challenge defined the reservoir functionally, as one or more connected populations in which the infection persists and that transmit it to the target, and warned that the label depends on which host you are trying to protect. The referent is a living host or habitat that keeps an infection going, not a lake of stored water and not a layer of oil-bearing rock.[1]

Unit
A host population, species, or habitat that maintains a pathogen and can transmit it onward
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Inferred from surveillance, seroprevalence, pathogen genetics, and transmission modelling that trace where the infection persists between outbreaks

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References

  1. Haydon, D. T., Cleaveland, S., Taylor, L. H., & Laurenson, M. K. (2002). Identifying reservoirs of infection: A conceptual and practical challenge. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 8(12), 1468–1473. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid0812.010317

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