Anthroponotic disease
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An anthroponotic disease, or anthroponosis, is an infectious disease
in which a disease causing agent carried by humans is transferred to other animals. It may cause the same disease or a different disease in other animals.
The reverse situation, a disease transmitted from animals to humans, is known as zoonotic.
It can also be defined as a human-to-human infection with no animal vector.
Leishmaniasis
is an example of a condition with both zoonotic and anthroponotic forms.
Infectious disease
Infectious diseases, also known as communicable diseases, contagious diseases or transmissible diseases comprise clinically evident illness resulting from the infection, presence and growth of pathogenic biological agents in an individual host organism...
in which a disease causing agent carried by humans is transferred to other animals. It may cause the same disease or a different disease in other animals.
The reverse situation, a disease transmitted from animals to humans, is known as zoonotic.
It can also be defined as a human-to-human infection with no animal vector.
Leishmaniasis
Leishmaniasis
Leishmaniasis is a disease caused by protozoan parasites that belong to the genus Leishmania and is transmitted by the bite of certain species of sand fly...
is an example of a condition with both zoonotic and anthroponotic forms.