Zoonotic Diseases

1. Virus, 2. Bacteria, 3. Fungi, 4. Parasite, 5. Unconventional agents (prions)

Rabies

Anthropozoonoses are transmitted to man from lower vertebrates, while zooanthroponosis is transmitted from man to lower vertebrates.

<p>It is transmitted from infected to susceptible host by direct contact, formite/mechanical vector. The agent undergoes little or no developmental change during transmission and can be maintained in nature by a single vertebrate species.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Metazoonosis is transmitted mechanically by invertebrate vectors.</p> Signup and view all the answers