Ecotropism
Ecotropism or ecotropic indicates that a pathogen like a virus or a bacterium has a narrow host range and can infect only one or a small group of species or cell culture lines.
Ecotropism or ecotropic (from Eco–Hearth and tropic–to turn towards.) Ecology, economy, heliotropic, and psychotropic are derived from these roots. The philosophy holds that for human culture to be healthy it must exist as in an ecological niche and thereby relate appropriately with all the fields of forces of nature, organic and inorganic. The term has been used in this way since 1990 and the publication of "Toward an Ecotropic Poetry" by the poets John Campion and John Herndon.
See also
- Tropism, a list of tropisms
- Amphotropism, indicating a wide host range
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