Anthroponotic diseases are diseases are caused by microorganisms that normally exist in a transmission cycle involving only humans. Examples:
• Tuberculosis
• Measles
• Malaria
This is as opposed to Zoonotic diseases, which occur when microbes that are normally transmitted among nonhuman hosts are transferred to humans, Examples:
• Rabies
• Tetanus
• Lyme
2007-01-02 03:55:43
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answered by TeriR 6
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I am no expert, but an anthroponosis is a disease that is spread from humans to humans;
said of diseases with some varieties that spread from animals to humans (zoonoses) and others that spread from humans to humans, particularly in reference to parasitic disease such as dry cutaneous leishmaniasis in which the disease can be spread from one human to another by an appropriate vector.
cutaneous leishmaniasis
infection with promastigotes (leptomonads) of leishmania tropica and of leishmaniasis major inoculated into the skin by the bite of an infected sandfly, phlebotomus (commonly P. Papatasi); it is endemic in parts of asia minor, northern Africa, and india, and is known by innumerable names, each indicating its locality (e.g., Aleppo, Baghdad, Delhi, or Jericho boil; Aden ulcer; Biskra button); the ulcer begins as a papule that enlarges to a nodule and then breaks down into an ulcer. two distinctive clinical and epidemiological diseases are recognised, the more common and widespread zoonotic rural disease with a moist acute form, caused by L. major, with reservoir rodent hosts; and an urban, anthroponotic, dry, chronic form of leishmaniasis caused by leishmaniasis tropica, without a reservoir host, and now largely controlled.
2007-01-02 04:00:39
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answered by DAVID C 6
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