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pathogen

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
In biology , a pathogen ( pathos "suffering, passion" and -γενής -genēs "producer of") in the oldest and broadest sense is anything that can produce disease ; the term came into use in the 1880s. Typically the term is used to describe an infectious agent ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1880, a back-formation from pathogenic .

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. any disease-producing agent (especially a virus or bacterium or other microorganism)

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB emerge ▪ Improve laboratory capabilities to identify and characterize emerging pathogens . ▪ Refine and expand the epidemiologic applications of new techniques for typing / subtyping emerging pathogens . ▪ Maintain diagnostic ...

Usage examples of pathogen.

Also, there are situations where testing for the antibody to a pathogen suspected of causing a condition can make sense, given the right circumstances.

First discovered in 1901 as a silkworm pathogen, it has been widely manufactured since the 1960s and can be purchased under such names as Dipel.

Centers for Disease Control noted that California has twice the rate of infections of two food-borne pathogens associated with human sewage, campylobacter and shigella, than any other state.

If the Fates had been true to form, there was a nasty pathogen of some kind in there, and anything that worked on webgoblins was probably also effective against webtrolls.

It seemed impossible that a variety of very different pathogens were developing multiresistance spontaneously.

Millions of people mixing antibiotics and potential pathogens in their guts, year in, year out.

Half the hospitals in Europe have suffered major outbreaks of multiple-resistant pathogens during the last eighteen months.

The CDC compiled statistics, carried out laboratory work on lethal pathogens, and even entered the field if circumstances called for it.

Ford had hoped they were going to talk about his ideas regarding the spread of resistant pathogens in the South Central community.

It struck him that he knew next to nothing about its effect on bacterial pathogens or its side effects on the human body.

He also believed that Earth was not only seeded by life from space but also by many of its diseases, such as influenza and bubonic plague, and suggested at one point that humans evolved projecting noses with the nostrils underneath as a way of keeping cosmic pathogens from falling into them.

In its quest to rid the body of pathogens, the immune system sometimes destroys cells or damages critical tissues, so often when you are unwell what you are feeling is not the pathogens but your own immune responses.

If they were working with recognized pathogens then, yesthere are regulations.

Heat-detecting infrared wave cameras, nuclear, biological and chemical mass spectrometers and pathogen detectors were set up, along with the deep radars.

Although clinical trials had not yet even begun, preliminary tests had indicated that Ribomax, a genetically engineered RNA molecule, was effective against a wide range of aerobic and anaerobic bacteria, including pathogens of the genera Clostridium, Staphylococcus, and Streptococcus.