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noun

any disease-producing agent, especially a virus, bacterium, or other microorganism.

Origin:
1940–45; patho- + -gen

Related forms

an·ti·path·o·gen, noun

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The mystery is what kind of pathogen or disease-causing organism could behave in such a pattern.

Research interests may include but are not limited to host-vector pathogen relationships and transmission biology.

As hoped, this compound augmented the potency of antibiotics in mice infected with this pathogen.

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The mystery is what kind of pathogen or disease-causing organism could behave in such a pattern.

Research interests may include but are not limited to host-vector pathogen relationships and transmission biology.

As hoped, this compound augmented the potency of antibiotics in mice infected with this pathogen.

Close contact between two species represents an opportunity for a pathogen to expand its horizons and possibilities.

The pathogen could spread to humans who ate contaminated beef.

The pathogen makes its presence known to humans through crimson pustules on the plant's stems and leaves.

Despite this, there is no federal requirement for grinders to test their ingredients for the pathogen.

The lack of it lowers the threshold for responding to a foreign protein that might come from a pathogen.

Each of them reflects the action of a pathogen that can cross to people from other species.

Heat can also influence the how a pathogen is spread.

Because of that ruling, meat processors were forced to detect the pathogen and work to suppress it.

Because people have the same immune system gene, in theory a similar step could create a pathogen deadly to people.

Other recent outbreaks from the same pathogen are blamed on swimming in a contaminated lake and contact with infected animals.

The scientists believe the pathogen can be carried long distances by the wind and birds.

Fever can play a variety of roles, such as inhibiting pathogen replication.

None of my friends have seen a doctor, but even if they did, they would not get a fancy lab test that can identify the pathogen.

These sentinels then drop away from the slug, taking the pathogen with it.

No single pathogen seems wholly responsible for the disease, they've found.

The global population has likely built up some immunity from centuries of exposure to the pathogen.

They isolated a pathogen from a sick individual and injected it into a healthy one.

He found that the dead caterpillers were infected with thick-walled spores of a fungus pathogen.

The ability of the virus to infect cats suggests that cats could enable the pathogen to adapt to mammals.

Let´s remember that resistance to any pathogen is weekened by time due to mutations of pathogen.

The fungus may be the primary pathogen causing the syndrome.

Take, for example, the way in which health officials decide how much the pathogen count should be reduced when heating food.

People can contract the pathogen by consuming undercooked poultry or meat, raw milk, or contaminated water.

Naive cells become memory cells when exposed to a pathogen.

Instead, the pathogen that runs into the antibiotic traces develops a resistance to that particular drug.

The disease is caused by a pathogen called a prion that seems able to survive all existing methods of sterilization.

Yet perhaps even this does not address the real nightmare-that a genetically engineered pathogen might be set loose deliberately.

Cooks should also watch out for that other pathogen fest: leaving cooked food on the counter for long periods.

The streptococcus pathogen is carried through the bloodstream and directly attacks organ tissues.

The poliovirus, a strictly a human pathogen is in many ways a mysterious virus.

Pathogen research on horse manure is relatively rare, he says.

They are induced and expressed to promote maximum likelihood of pathogen survival through rapid spread from damaged host species.

The pathogen was found on a conveyor belt for carrying cantaloupes, a melon drying area and a floor drain, among other places.

Instead of killing the pathogen the phages spur its ability both to grow and persist in the soil.

But no one had ever found a pathogen in an animal sick with the disease.

Vaccines work by priming the immune system to recognize the target pathogen and attack it when detected.

Taxation itself is now considered a parasitic pathogen rather than a crucial part of our social organism.

Chlorine dioxide eliminates the pathogen then changes to salt and water.

Natural selection always eliminates the more toxic or susceptible specimens of a pathogen and its host.

The pathogen is transferred to eggs by infected hens and it can be found inside eggs that appear normal.

Eventually host and pathogen learn to live with each other.

Imagine disabling a gene that contributes to high cholesterol, or one that a pathogen needs to survive.

Then they applied kosher salt and rinsed the skin, measuring pathogen levels along the way.

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World English Dictionary

pathogen or pathogene (ˈpæθəˌdʒɛn, ˈpæθəˌdʒiːn)

—n
	any agent that can cause disease

pathogene or pathogene

—n

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Word Origin & History

pathogen

1880, a back formation from pathogenic.

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Medical Dictionary

pathogen path·o·gen (pāth'ə-jən)
n.
An agent that causes disease, especially a living microorganism such as a bacterium, virus, or fungus.

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Science Dictionary

pathogen

(pāth'ə-jən) Pronunciation Key
An agent that causes infection or disease, especially a microorganism, such as a bacterium or protozoan, or a virus. See Note at germ.

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Cultural Dictionary

pathogen [(path-uh-juhn)]

A disease-causing agent. Microorganisms, viruses, and toxins are examples of pathogens.

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