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Descriptor English: Host Specificity
Descriptor Spanish: Especificidad del Huésped
Descriptor especificidad por el huésped
Entry term(s) especificidad de huésped
Scope note: Propiedades de un microorganismo patógeno que lo hacen capaz de infectar a uno o más huéspedes específicos. Entre los patógenos se encuentran los PARÁSITOS, así como VIRUS, BACTERIAS, HONGOS y PLANTAS.
Descriptor Portuguese: Especificidade de Hospedeiro
Descriptor French: Spécificité d'hôte
Entry term(s): Host Range
Host Ranges
Host Species Specificities
Host Species Specificity
Host Specificities
Range, Host
Ranges, Host
Specificities, Host
Specificities, Host Species
Specificity, Host
Specificity, Host Species
Tree number(s): G06.462.380
G16.527.200.380
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D058507
Scope note: 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.
Allowable Qualifiers: DE drug effects
GE genetics
IM immunology
PH physiology
RE radiation effects
Previous Indexing: Host-Parasite Interactions (1970-2010)
Public MeSH Note: 2011
History Note: 2011
DeCS ID: 54339
Unique ID: D058507
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 2011/01/01
Date of Entry: 2010/06/25
Revision Date: 2017/12/14
Host Specificity - Preferred
Concept UI M0542933
Scope note 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.
Preferred term Host Specificity
Entry term(s) Host Species Specificities
Host Species Specificity
Host Specificities
Specificities, Host
Specificities, Host Species
Specificity, Host
Specificity, Host Species
Host Range - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M0542934
Preferred term Host Range
Entry term(s) Host Ranges
Range, Host
Ranges, Host



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