The phrase "accidental host" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to biology, epidemiology, or computer science, where an entity unintentionally serves as a host for a pathogen or software.
Example: "In the study of infectious diseases, researchers found that certain animals can act as accidental hosts for viruses that typically infect humans."
Alternatives: "unintentional host" or "incidental host".
Ehrlichial infection in an accidental host may result in fatal diseases such as human monocytotropic ehrlichiosis, an emerging, tick-borne disease.
It should be noted that other species may be subject to orthohantavirus spillover, but humans are our accidental host of focus.
This relates to a degree of ambiguity as to how the environmental variables may affect the system, as they may affect the virus, the rodent host, or the accidental host (humans) - directly or indirectly.
Datasets documenting various aspects of the 'zoonotic pathogen circulation iceberg'3 offer the opportunity to test various hypotheses relating to the effect of environment on three levels: the virus, the host, and the human accidental host.
If an inappropriate host swallows a cystacanth, the cystacanth may bore through the gut wall into the body cavity, where it encysts and remains infective until the accidental host is eaten; then the cystacanth emerges again in its new host.
The human body can be the definitive, intermediate, or accidental host of several different parasites including protozoa, helminths, arthropods, insects, amongst others.
ZCL is a disease of mammals, and humans can become infected as accidental hosts.
Comparatively, humans can be considered accidental hosts of IAV as only a handful of subtypes have been able to gain a foothold and establish themselves in the population.
Humans are accidental hosts that become infected principally by inhaling infectious aerosols lifted from places where infectious bank voles excreted urine, faeces or saliva17, or, in rare cases, by bites of infected reservoirs18.
Humans are accidental hosts of the parasite.
T. canis can only complete its lifecycle in dogs, and humans are accidental hosts [1, 2].
