What is "ecotropism"

n. (context biology English) The tendency of a virus or bacterium to infect a small range of hosts

Ecotropism or ecotropic (from eco – hearth and tropic – to turn towards) indicates that a pathogen like a virus or a bacterium has a narrow host range and can infect only one or a small group of species or cell culture lines.

Ecotropism can also refer to the philosophy that holds that for human culture to be healthy, it must exist as in an ecological niche and thereby relate appropriately with all the fields of forces of nature, organic and inorganic. The term has been used in this way since 1990 and the publication of "Toward an Ecotropic Poetry" by the poets John Campion and John Herndon.