RW Ashford (1997)
What it takes to be a reservoir host
BELGIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY, 127(S1):85-90.
The majority of parasitic infections of man are of zoonotic origin. In a conceptual framework for the incrimination of mammalian reservoir hosts, these are defined as being essential to the maintenance of parasite suprapopulations. A series of guidelines are given for the accumulation of the relevant information. It is proposed that mammal ecologists can contribute significantly to the understanding of medically important zoonoses.
zoonoses; reservoirs; epidemiology
International Workshop on Rodent Biology and Integrated Pest Management in Africa, MOROGORO, TANZANIA, OCT 21-25, 1996
- ISSN: 0777-6276
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