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Sylvatic
Sylvatic meaning
Of or pertaining to woods or woodland organisms; sylvan | Of or pertaining to wild rather than domestic animals | Of or pertaining to diseases or parasites borne or transmitted by sylvatic organisms
Example sentences (5)
Besides the urban cycle, both in Africa and South America, a sylvatic cycle (forest cycle or jungle cycle) is present, where Aedes africanus (in Africa) or mosquitoes of the genus Haemagogus and Sabethes (in South America) serve as vectors.
Even when colonies of insects are eradicated from a house and surrounding domestic animal shelters, they can re-emerge from plants or animals that are part of the ancient, sylvatic (referring to wild animals) infection cycle.
In South America, the sylvatic cycle is currently the only way humans can become infected, which explains the low incidence of yellow fever cases on the continent.
In the urban and sylvatic (forest) cycles of Y. pestis, most of the spreading occurs between rodents and fleas.
These programs have largely been unsuccessful because they were unable to break the sylvatic cycle involving wild primates.