Table 1.

Reported sex biases in survival to infection by specific pathogens.

Class	Pathogen	Survival bias-direction	References
Viral	Kalithea	Female	(48)
Fungal	Beauveria bassiana	Male	(49–53)
	Metarhizium anisopliae	Male	(54)
	Candida albicans	Female	(55)
Microsporidial	Tubulinosema ratisbonensis	Female	(56)
Bacterial gram-negative	Pseudomonas aeruginosa	Male	(46)
	Pseudomonas aeruginosa	Female	(55)
	Pseudomonas fluorescens	Female	(22)
	Providencia rettgeri	Male	(23)
	Providencia alcalifaciens	Male	(23)
	Coxiella burnetii	–	(57)
	Serratia marcescens	Female (Genotype-specific)	(58)
Gram-positive	Enterococcus faecalis	Male	(23)
	Lactococcus lactis	Female	(58)