The phrase "a limited host" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are referring to a host that has restrictions or is not extensive in capacity or variety.
Example: "The application can only run on a limited host, which may affect its performance."
Alternatives: "a restricted host" or "a constrained host".
Mycoviruses are thought to have evolved in close association with their hosts (Ghabrial and Suzuki 2009) and have a limited host range, most often limited to one host genus (e.g., Liu et al. 2003).
When compared to viruses with a limited host range, zoonotic viruses with high host plasticity are more likely to spread after spillover by secondary human-to-human transmission and are known to have greater geographic spread7.
IBV is usually associated with respiratory disease in domestic fowl, and was believed to have a limited host range.
Some appear to have a limited host range, (Molluscum contagiosum and Variola virus) while others are found to infect multiple animal species.
On one hand, a biosafe candidate for biocontrol must exhibit a limited host range, avoiding its spread over to unexpected host targets.
Hepadnaviruses can infect avian and mammalian hosts but have a limited host range, infecting only their natural hosts and a few closely related species.
Serovars A-K have a limited host-cell range, they infect mainly squamocolumnar epithelial cells and are incapable of infecting deeper tissues.
C. muris, which is naturally a murine parasite, appears to have a more limited host range than C. parvum.
D. citri has a very limited host range (only within the Rutaceae) and has only recently (within the last 15 to 25 years) spread to the New World.
PCRs for esp and hyl Efm were negative for these three strains and one was ampicillin-resistant. Absence of IS16 among non-clinical E. faecium strains also suggests a very limited host range of IS 16-bearing plasmids (e.g., pRUM-like) only among hospital-associated strains.
As B. hyodysenteriae has a much more limited host range than B. pilosicoli, it seems paradoxical that it has a greater number and variety of methyl-accepting chemotaxis genes.
