Sentence examples for incidental host from inspiring English sources

Human involvement in these cycles, and hence the occurrence of human disease, is often to act as incidental host.

A host that becomes infected, but is not required for the maintenance of the population of a pathogen, can usefully be called an incidental host.

The emergence of the goose as an incidental host therefore appears to be related to a change in the WNV genome possibly related to what had occurred in Bucharest in 1996.

In the human incidental host, larvae attach to the mucosa of the gastrointestinal tract, causing clinical features ranging from asymptomatic carriage to severe abdominal pain with complications, such as gastric perforation (2 ).

For incidental hosts that transmit pathogens from a reservoir to another incidental host, analogous to a pipe leading from a water reservoir, Garnham (4 ) coined the useful term "liaison host".

Humans are incidental hosts for ticks and may become infected by a feeding infected tick.

In contrast to the human-specific host range of variola virus, rodents are thought to be a principal natural reservoir for the monkeypox virus and primates the incidental hosts of viral circulation [3].

Either, or both, of these patterns will result in a lower probability of uninfected organisms contracting WNV and a lower probability of incidental hosts, such as humans, contracting WNV [1], [4].

As the frequency of infected birds increases in local populations, the chances of incidental hosts, such as humans, being bitten and infected by a mosquito carrying WNV also increases [4].

Humans and horses are considered incidental hosts.

Humans and horses are incidental hosts for WNV (7 ).