Assertion: pathogen's reservoir | /r/DefinedAs | environment
Facets:
value: in a 2002 conceptual exploration
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: In a 2002 conceptual exploration published in the CDC's Emerging Infectious Diseases, the natural reservoir of a given pathogen is defined as "one or more epidemiologically connected populations or environments in which the pathogen can be permanently maintained and from which infection is transmitted to the defined target population.
text: We propose that a reservoir be defined as one or more epidemiologically connected populations or environments in which the pathogen can be permanently maintained and from which infection is transmitted to the defined target population.