Disease Reservoirs

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Animate or inanimate sources which normally harbor disease-causing organisms and thus serve as potential sources of disease outbreaks. Reservoirs are distinguished from vectors (DISEASE VECTORS) and carriers, which are agents of disease transmission rather than continuing sources of potential disease outbreaks.

Descriptor ID	D004197
MeSH Number(s)	N06.850.295
Concept/Terms	Disease Reservoirs Disease Reservoirs Disease Reservoir Reservoir, Disease Reservoirs, Disease Infectious Disease Reservoirs Disease Reservoir, Infectious Disease Reservoirs, Infectious Infectious Disease Reservoir Reservoir, Infectious Disease Reservoirs, Infectious Disease

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Health Care [N]
Environment and Public Health [N06]
Public Health [N06.850]
Disease Reservoirs [N06.850.295]

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
2002	1	0	1
2006	1	0	1
2007	0	1	1
2008	0	1	1
2009	0	1	1
2011	2	1	3
2013	1	0	1
2014	0	2	2
2015	0	1	1
2016	0	1	1
2019	1	0	1
2020	1	0	1
2024	0	1	1
2025	2	0	2

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Atkins A, Ndhlovu LC, Furler O'Brien RL. Illuminating lymphoid tissue HIV reservoirs: advanced assays and their relevance to achieving an HIV cure. Curr Opin HIV AIDS. 2025 Nov 01; 20(6):533-542.

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Stone NE, Hamond C, Clegg JR, McDonough RF, Bourgeois RM, Ballard R, Thornton NB, Nuttall M, Hertzel H, Anderson T, Whealy RN, Timm S, Roberts AK, Barrag?n V, Phipatanakul W, Leibler JH, Benson H, Specht A, White R, LeCount K, Furstenau TN, Galloway RL, Hill NJ, Madison JD, Fofanov VY, Pearson T, Sahl JW, Busch JD, Weiner Z, Nally JE, Wagner DM, Rosenbaum MH. Host population dynamics influence Leptospira spp. transmission patterns among Rattus norvegicus in Boston, Massachusetts, US. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2025 Apr; 19(4):e0012966.

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Miura K, Chambers J, Takahashi N, Nuradji H, Dharmayanti NI, Randusari P, Noor SM, Setya Adji R, Saepulloh M, Yoshimatsu K, Koizumi N. Coinfection with Orthohantavirus and Leptospira spp. in Rats Collected from Markets in Indonesia. Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis. 2025 01; 25(1):43-48.

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Tang Y, Woodward BO, Pastor L, George AM, Petrechko O, Nouvet FJ, Haas DW, Jiang G, Hildreth JEK. Endogenous Retroviral Envelope Syncytin Induces HIV-1 Spreading and Establishes HIV Reservoirs in Placenta. Cell Rep. 2020 03 31; 30(13):4528-4539.e4.

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Arai S, Kikuchi F, Bawm S, Son NT, Lin KS, T? VT, Aoki K, Tsuchiya K, Tanaka-Taya K, Morikawa S, Oishi K, Yanagihara R. Molecular Phylogeny of Mobatviruses (Hantaviridae) in Myanmar and Vietnam. Viruses. 2019 03 07; 11(3).

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Barragan V, Chiriboga J, Miller E, Olivas S, Birdsell D, Hepp C, Hornstra H, Schupp JM, Morales M, Gonzalez M, Reyes S, de la Cruz C, Keim P, Hartskeerl R, Trueba G, Pearson T. High Leptospira Diversity in Animals and Humans Complicates the Search for Common Reservoirs of Human Disease in Rural Ecuador. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2016 09; 10(9):e0004990.

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Yashina LN, Abramov SA, Dupal TA, Danchinova GA, Malyshev BS, Hay J, Gu SH, Yanagihara R. Hokkaido genotype of Puumala virus in the grey red-backed vole (Myodes rufocanus) and northern red-backed vole (Myodes rutilus) in Siberia. Infect Genet Evol. 2015 Jul; 33:304-13.

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Bennett SN, Gu SH, Kang HJ, Arai S, Yanagihara R. Reconstructing the evolutionary origins and phylogeography of hantaviruses. Trends Microbiol. 2014 Aug; 22(8):473-82.

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Wagner DM, Klunk J, Harbeck M, Devault A, Waglechner N, Sahl JW, Enk J, Birdsell DN, Kuch M, Lumibao C, Poinar D, Pearson T, Fourment M, Golding B, Riehm JM, Earn DJ, Dewitte S, Rouillard JM, Grupe G, Wiechmann I, Bliska JB, Keim PS, Scholz HC, Holmes EC, Poinar H. Yersinia pestis and the plague of Justinian 541-543 AD: a genomic analysis. Lancet Infect Dis. 2014 Apr; 14(4):319-26.

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Arai S, Nguyen ST, Boldgiv B, Fukui D, Araki K, Dang CN, Ohdachi SD, Nguyen NX, Pham TD, Boldbaatar B, Satoh H, Yoshikawa Y, Morikawa S, Tanaka-Taya K, Yanagihara R, Oishi K. Novel bat-borne hantavirus, Vietnam. Emerg Infect Dis. 2013 Jul; 19(7):1159-61.

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