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CONTENT

Bacteria 241

Bacterial Identification 242

Viruses 243

Viral Identification 243

Bacterial and Viral

Transmission Patterns 243

Physical Contact 244

Ingestion 244

Aerosol Transmission 245

Arthropod Transmission 245

Helminth-mediated Transmission 245

Reservoir Types Used by Bacteria and Viruses 246

Vertebrate-dependent Reservoirs 247

Latent Infections (Apparently

Healthy Carriers) 247

Clinically Active Infections 248

Invertebrate-Vertebrate Reservoirs 249

Arthropod-Vertebrate Reservoir 249

Helminth-Vertebrate Reservoir 250

Soil and Water as Reservoirs 251

Literature Cited 252

Bacteria and viruses, while very different kinds of infectious agents, share many similarities in their basic life history strategies, including their means of transmission to susceptible hosts and the basic types of reservoirs they use for their long-term survival and success.

To reduce redundancy, and to accentuate these important patterns, we give a brief introduction to both bacteria and viruses in this chapter, followed by an overview of the most common patterns of transmission and the basic types of reservoirs used by pathogenic bacteria and viruses. We illustrate these patterns through discussion of specific bacteria and viruses in Chapters 9 and 10, respectively.

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Source: Botzler Richard G., Brown Richard N.. Foundations of Wildlife Diseases. University of California Press,2014. — 458 p.. 2014
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