three-part classification of infectious diseases; the other two parts are anthroponoses (spread mostly from human to human) and zoonoses (spread mostly from...

exist exclusively within a human reservoir, are sometimes known as anthroponoses. Humans can act as reservoirs for sexually transmitted diseases, measles...

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