silvatic

Adjective

sylvatic (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to woods or woodland organisms; sylvan
   • Because arthropod-borne viruses, or arboviruses, can be spread by competent mosquito vectors across great distances, they pose substantial risk to other regions in which the disease is currently nonendemic. Zoonotic arboviruses circulate in sylvatic and peridomestic cycles involving wild animals...2011 Desiree LaBeaud et al: Arbovirus Prevalence in Mosquitoes, Kenya. Journal: Emerging Infectious Diseases - Volume 17, Issues 1-6 - Page 233
2. Of or pertaining to wild rather than domestic animals
3. Of or pertaining to diseases or parasites borne or transmitted by sylvatic organisms
   • Yellow fever has two transmission cycles, a sylvatic or jungle cycle and an urban cycle. The sylvatic cycle involving forest canopy mosquitoes as the vectors, and forest primates, mainly monkeys, as the hosts. The urban cycle involves Aedes aegypti as the vector and humans as the hosts. The urban...
   • The oriental rat flea, "Xenopsylla cheopis", found on commensal rats in many parts of the world, is the most important vector of bubonic plague and murine typhus. The plague bacilli and murine typhus rickettsiae are ordinarily acquired by the flea during feeding on infected rats. Then the pathogens...2003 Lorraine B. Davis (ed) Military Preventive Medicine: Mobilization and Deployment, Volume 1 →ISBN Pub: Office of The Surgeon General, Department of the Army, United States of America. pp. 478 &...

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