anthropozoonosis

anthropozoonosis
A zoonosis maintained in nature by animals and transmissible to humans; e.g., rabies, brucellosis. Cf.:zooanthroponosis, amphixenosis. [anthropo- + G. zoon, animal, + nosos, disease]

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n.
a disease that is transmissible from an animal to a human, or vice versa, under natural conditions. Diseases that are found primarily in animals and sometimes affect humans include leptospirosis, anthrax, and rabies.

Medical dictionary. 2011.

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