Number of human pathogens
| Value | 1407 Pathogenic species Range: 538 bacteria: 317 fungi: 287 helminths: 208 viruses or prions: 57 protozoa Pathogenic species |
|---|---|
| Organism | Various |
| Reference | Mark Woolhouse, Sonya Gowtage-Sequeria and Ben Evans - Centre for Infectious Diseases, University of Edinburgh Foresight Infectious Diseases: preparing for the future Office of science and innovation, T16: Quantitative analysis of the characteristics of emerging and re-emerging human pathogens 2006 link - link p.5 bottom paragraph |
| Comments | A human pathogen was defined as: ‘a species infectious to and capable of causing disease in humans under natural transmission conditions’. Only partial list of pathogens in keywords. For full list see table 1 in pp.14-27 in link |
| Entered by | Uri M |
| ID | 106626 |