The phrase "a limited host range" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to biology, virology, or ecology, where it describes an organism's ability to infect or interact with a specific number of host species.
Example: "The virus has a limited host range, primarily affecting only certain types of birds."
Alternatives: "restricted host range" or "narrow host range".
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.
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.
Whereas M. leprae is a pathogen with very limited host range causing leprosy in humans, So. glossinidius and Se.
