Volume 11, Number 12—December 2005
Research
Host Range and Emerging and Reemerging Pathogens
Figure 2

Figure 2. . Relationship between breadth of host range (as number of nonhuman host types, as listed in Figure 1) and the fraction of pathogen species regarded as emerging or reemerging. A total of 122 zoonotic species (10 of them emerging or reemerging) for which the host range is unknown are omitted.
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