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Descriptor English: Disease Reservoirs
Descriptor Spanish: Reservorios de Enfermedades
Descriptor reservorios de enfermedades
Entry term(s) reservorio de enfermedades
reservorio de enfermedades infecciosas
reservorios de enfermedades humanas
reservorios de infección
Scope note: Fuentes animadas o inanimadas que normalmente albergan organismos patógenos y sirven de este modo como fuentes potenciales de brotes de enfermedades. Los reservorios son distintos de los vectores (VECTORES DE ENFERMEDADES) y de los portadores, que son agentes de transmisión de enfermedades más que fuentes continuas de brotes de enfermedades potenciales. Los seres humanos pueden actuar como reservorios y como portadores de enfermedades.
Descriptor Portuguese: Reservatórios de Doenças
Descriptor French: Réservoirs de maladies
Entry term(s): Réservoirs de maladies infectieuses
Tree number(s): N06.850.520.203.250
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D004197
Scope note: Animate or inanimate sources which normally harbor disease-causing organisms and thus serve as potential sources of disease outbreaks. Reservoirs are distinguished from vectors (DISEASE VECTORS) and carriers, which are agents of disease transmission rather than continuing sources of potential disease outbreaks. Humans may serve both as disease reservoirs and carriers.
Annotation: differentiate from DISEASE VECTORS: reservoirs can be animate or inanimate (like swamps, housedust, etc.)
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
MI microbiologie
PS parasitologie
SN statistiques et données numériques
VE médecine vétérinaire
VI virologie
Related: Vecteurs de maladies MeSH
Zoonoses MeSH
DeCS ID: 22151
Unique ID: D004197
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1967/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2020/06/17
Réservoirs de maladies - Preferred
Concept UI M0006568
Preferred term Réservoirs de maladies
Entry term(s) Réservoirs de maladies infectieuses



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