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. Humans may serve both as disease reservoirs and carriers.
    

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M0001897EA: Two panoramic photographs depicting Aqua Claudia, ("the Claudian water"), an ancient Roman aqueduct that was one of nine which supplied Rome in A.D. 38 / M0001897EB: Landscape showing the breeding places for mosquitoes, as places where malaria may be transmitted, in London

Disease Reservoirs

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M0001897EA: Two panoramic photographs depicting Aqua Claudia, ("the Claudian water"), an ancient Roman aqueduct that was one of nine which supplied Rome in A.D. 38 / M0001897EB: Landscape showing the breeding places for mosquitoes, as places where malaria may be transmitted, in London