术语信息
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The role is realized in a process that has as part life and multiplication processes of an infectious agent and a transmission process.
If the material entity bearing the reservoir role is an organism, then this organism also bears the host role. The organism may also bear the vector role.
definition
A role borne by a material entity in virtue of the fact that it is a habitat in which infectious agents can persist and multiply and from which they can be transmitted in virtue of prevailing practices of potential hosts.