(ăn″thrō-pō-zō″ō-nō′sĭs)
[Pronunciation]
[″ + zoon, animal, + nosis, disease]
An infectious disease acquired by humans from vertebrate hosts of the causative agents.
Examples are rabies and trichinosis.
anthropozoonosis is a sample definition found in
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