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sylvatic plague

[sil′vad·ik ′plāg]
(veterinary medicine)
Plague occurring in rodents; may be transmitted to humans. Also known as endemic rural plague.
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Finally, they concluded that orangutans possibly were infected with ZIKV from a human reservoir or recently established sylvatic cycles (7, 40) and that nonhuman primates may be reservoir hosts for the ZIKA virus in Asia.
It has been observed that orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) from Borneo show high seroprevalence to different arbovirus infections, including ZIKV (27), and therefore, they may serve as ZIKV natural reservoirs in the Asiatic sylvatic cycle.
Laboratory testing confirmed that the prairie dogs had died of Yersinia pestis, or sylvatic plague.
Falqueto, "Influence of the landscape on dispersal of sylvatic triatomines to anthropic habitats in the Atlantic Forest," Journal of Biogeography, vol.
The G8 and G10 strains are associated with the "northern" or "sylvatic" biotype of E.
These could either be domestic, such as cats [23] and horses 24], or part of the wildlife in a so-called sylvatic cycle.
Fleas at the site carried sylvatic plague, a disease that was killing the ferrets and their prairie-dog prey.
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