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pathogen
  1. (immunology) Any organism or substance, especially a microorganism, capable of causing disease, such as bacteria, viruses, protozoa or fungi. Microorganisms are not considered to be pathogenic until they have reached a population size that is large enough to cause disease.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Malaria, introduced after 1650, became the Chesapeake's most virulent pathogen.”
      “With antimicrobials our expectation is that the infecting pathogen will be killed, but the myriad normal bacteria are also exposed.”
      “A gene from a human pathogen is inserted into a bacterium that infects plants.”
pathogenomics
pathogroup
  1. A group of similar, or related pathogens
pathotoxin
pathogene
  1. Dated form of pathogen.
pathogroups
  1. plural of pathogroup
pathotoxins
  1. plural of pathotoxin
pathogenes
  1. plural of pathogene
  2. Examples:
    1. “There was no concomitant elevation of other pathogenes as MRSA, VRE, Clostridium or Candida.”
      “In near future the ICPs in our hospital will get a useful intranet tool for the early detection of clusters of pathogenes.”
      “Mitotic response of roach hemocytes to certain pathogenes in the hemolymph.”
pathogens
  1. plural of pathogen
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Known ocular pathogens include bacteria, fungi, and also protozoans such as amoebae, for example the acanthamoebae.”
      “Numerous investigators have studied the etiologic pathogens associated with otitis media in children.”
      “Both pathogens can colonise the intestines of beef cattle and get into the food chain during slaughter at the abattoir.”
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