In general, the source of infection for human beings is another human, or an animal, or the environment (extra-animal substrate). In line with this we can distinguish human infectious diseases as anthroponoses, zoonoses and sapronoses, respectively.
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Hubálek, Z., & Rudolf, I. (2010). Types of Human Disease by Source of the Infectious Agent. In Microbial Zoonoses and Sapronoses (pp. 5–8). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9657-9_2
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