zooanthroponosis medical dictionary

A zoonosis normally maintained by humans but which can be transmitted to other vertebrates (e.g., amoebiasis to dogs, tuberculosis).

Compare: anthropozoonosis, amphixenosis.

Origin: zoo-+ G. Anthropos, man, + nosos, disease

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