术语信息
definition
A collective resistance disposition that inheres in an organism population in virtue of the fact that the proportion of the population with immunity to an infectious agent is high resulting in a low number of transmissions from hosts in the population to susceptible individuals in the population and thereby mitigating the damaging effects of the infectious agent on the population.
术语关系
同义词:
- collective resistance disposition and inheres in some organism population and realized in only (realizes some immunity to infectious agent)