Another bit of special lingo: reservoir host.
Bats are reservoir hosts for a spectrum of infectious diseases.
Scientists have debated whether gorillas' infecting one another or the reservoir host is the main culprit.
Time-series analyses can provide information on changes possibly reoccurring after invasions from natural reservoir hosts.
Spillover occurs when transmission from a reservoir host species drives infection in another host species.
Western gray squirrel (Rodentia: Sciuridae): A primary reservoir host of Borrelia burgdorferi in Californian oak woodlands?
Habitat heterogeneity influences pathogen ecology by affecting vector abundance and the reservoir host communities.
As for the novel coronavirus in Saudi Arabia, its reservoir host is still undiscovered.
Grassland habitats had a very low abundance of hantavirus reservoir hosts (Peromyscus leucopus and P. maniculatus), whereas mesquite shrubland harbored a significantly higher abundance of reservoir hosts.
We postulated three essential functions for the pathogen: replication in the reservoir host, survival outside the host, and transmission.
