Table 1.
Animal species including humans for which pathogens have been studied, including domestic animals we eat or companion animals we keep as pets, and exotic animals also used as food sources or as pets.
Figure 1.
Pyramid diagram showing the prioritisation framework for pathogens leading to the use of the quantitative H-index methodology to estimate relative pathogen impact.
Table 2.
Top 100 human pathogens in Europe, prioritised according to the H-index methodology [6].
Table 3.
Top 100 domestic animal pathogens in Europe, prioritised according to the H-index methodology [6] with the same emerging and zoonotic definitions as for Table 2.
Table 4.
Results of Spearman's Rank correlations between H-indices and the DISCONTOOLS prioritisation of major animal diseases [11].