"Host Specificity" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The properties of a pathogen that makes it capable of infecting one or more specific hosts. The pathogen can include PARASITES as well as VIRUSES; BACTERIA; FUNGI; or PLANTS.
| Descriptor ID |
D058507
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G06.380.380 G16.543.380
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| Concept/Terms |
Host Specificity- Host Specificity
- Host Specificities
- Specificities, Host
- Specificity, Host
- Host Species Specificity
- Host Species Specificities
- Specificities, Host Species
- Specificity, Host Species
Host Range- Host Range
- Host Ranges
- Range, Host
- Ranges, Host
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Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Host Specificity".
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Host Specificity" by people in Profiles.
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Rapid design of bacteriophage cocktails to suppress the burden and virulence of gut-resident carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae. Cell Host Microbe. 2024 Nov 13; 32(11):1988-2003.e8.
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Commensal protists in reptiles display flexible host range and adaptation to ectothermic hosts. mBio. 2023 Dec 19; 14(6):e0227323.
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Remarkably low host specificity in the bat fly Penicillidia fulvida (Diptera: Nycteribiidae) as assessed by mitochondrial COI and nuclear 28S sequence data. Parasit Vectors. 2022 Oct 27; 15(1):392.
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Mutations derived from horseshoe bat ACE2 orthologs enhance ACE2-Fc neutralization of SARS-CoV-2. PLoS Pathog. 2021 04; 17(4):e1009501.
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Possibility for reverse zoonotic transmission of SARS-CoV-2 to free-ranging wildlife: A case study of bats. PLoS Pathog. 2020 09; 16(9):e1008758.
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Disentangling the assembly mechanisms of ant cuticular bacterial communities of two Amazonian ant species sharing a common arboreal nest. Mol Ecol. 2020 04; 29(7):1372-1385.
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Engineering Phage Host-Range and Suppressing Bacterial Resistance through Phage Tail Fiber Mutagenesis. Cell. 2019 10 03; 179(2):459-469.e9.
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Insights into Circovirus Host Range from the Genomic Fossil Record. J Virol. 2018 08 15; 92(16).
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Rapid host switching in generalist Campylobacter strains erodes the signal for tracing human infections. ISME J. 2016 Mar; 10(3):721-9.
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Discovering new indicators of fecal pollution. Trends Microbiol. 2014 Dec; 22(12):697-706.