Table 2.
List of Infectious diseases/pathogens with minimum occurrences of five times in infection-related literature (1980–2019)
| Disease / Pathogena | Number of occurrences in author keywords |
|---|---|
| Malaria | 112 |
| Dengue | 76 |
| Arbovirus | 33 |
| Diarrhea | 23 |
| Lyme disease | 18 |
| Chikungunya | 14 |
| Cholera | 12 |
| Salmonella | 12 |
| West Nile virus | 11 |
| Schistosomiasis | 11 |
| Plasmodium falciparum | 11 |
| Influenza | 11 |
| Plasmodium vivax | 10 |
| Tick-borne Encephalitis | 9 |
| Ross River virus | 8 |
| Zika | 8 |
| Rift valley fever | 7 |
| Leptospirosis | 6 |
| Leishmaniasis | 6 |
| Japanese encephalitis | 6 |
| Campylobacter | 5 |
| Cercariae | 5 |
| Chagas disease | 5 |
| Hantaviruses | 5 |
aThis list is not 100% inclusive of all pathogens or infections present in the retrieved literature. Please see result section and Fig. 3 for more details