Global research trends of World Health Organization’s top eight emerging pathogens

Table 7 Top 10 productive countries for each pathogen/infectious disease

SARS	Frequency	% N = 3379	Crimean-Congo	Frequency	% N = 766	Marburg	Frequency	% N = 354
China	811	24.0	Turkey	288	37.6	USA	154	43.5
USA	786	23.3	Iran	91	11.9	Germany	65	18.4
Hong Kong	499	14.8	USA	91	11.9	Canada	29	8.2
Taiwan	276	8.2	UK	45	5.9	Japan	23	6.5
Canada	240	7.1	Germany	41	5.4	France	20	5.6
Singapore	211	6.2	Greece	41	5.4	UK	18	5.1
Germany	167	4.9	France	36	4.7	Belgium	13	3.7
UK	131	3.9	Sweden	35	4.6	Switzerland	13	3.7
Japan	127	3.8	Russian Fed.	27	3.5	South Africa	12	3.4
Netherlands	79	2.3	Bulgaria	24	3.1	Congo	11	3.1
Ebola	Frequency	% N = 2355	Rift valley fever	Frequency	% N = 678	MERS	Frequency	% N = 613
USA	1147	48.7	USA	263	38.8	USA	201	32.8
Canada	192	8.2	France	124	18.3	Saudi Arabia	96	15.7
France	192	8.2	South Africa	75	11.1	China	82	13.4
Germany	186	7.9	Kenya	68	10.0	UK	55	9.0
UK	160	6.8	Senegal	46	6.8	Germany	54	8.8
China	122	5.2	UK	41	6.0	Hong Kong	45	7.3
Japan	113	4.8	Saudi Arabia	31	4.6	Netherlands	44	7.2
Switzerland	66	2.8	Egypt	28	4.1	South Korea	37	6.0
Nigeria	58	2.5	Germany	28	4.1	France	27	4.4
India	56	2.4	Netherlands	27	4.0	Japan	23	3.8
Nipah	Frequency	% N = 382	Lassa	Frequency	% N = 285
USA	186	48.7	USA	123	43.2
Malaysia	88	23.0	Germany	74	26.0
Australia	66	17.3	France	34	11.9
Bangladesh	29	7.6	Nigeria	32	11.2
France	25	6.5	Sierra Leone	19	6.7
Canada	23	6.0	Guinea	17	6.0
Japan	19	5.0	Canada	15	5.3
Germany	17	4.5	UK	12	4.2
Singapore	16	4.2	Netherlands	10	3.5
UK	15	3.9	Belgium	9	3.2
			Japan	9	3.2

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