Figure 1.
Infective dose and the mechanisms used by pathogens to infect hosts.
Means ±1 standard error (Table S2 in Text S1).
Figure 2.
Variation in case fatality rate explained by infective dose.
Means ±1 standard error. Line represents a logistic curve (Table S3in Text S1).
Figure 3.
Variation in case fatality rate explained by infection route.
Means ±1 standard error. Line represents a logistic curve (Table S3 in Text S1).
Table 1.
Definition of the scores for calculating disease severity.