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pathogen

[ path-uh-juhn, ‑-Âá±ð²Ô ]

noun

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


pathogen

/ ˈpæθəˌdÊ’iËn; ˈpæθəˌdÊ’É›n /

noun

  1. any agent that can cause disease
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pathogen

/ ±èă³Ù³ó′ə-ÂáÉ™²Ô /

  1. An agent that causes infection or disease, especially a microorganism, such as a bacterium or protozoan, or a virus.
  2. See Note at germ

pathogen

  1. A disease-causing agent. Microorganisms , viruses , and toxins are examples of pathogens.
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of pathogen1

First recorded in 1940–45; patho- + -gen
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An insidious but lesser-known consequence of even a mild measles infection is that it kills the very cells that remember which pathogens the patient has previously fought and how those battles were won.

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Programs that offer clean syringes to intravenous drug users have been shown to prevent the spread of hepatitis and other blood-borne pathogens.

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For Cole, that meant walking away from her work on a Centers for Disease Control system to track dangerous illnesses and pathogens and prevent their spread.

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“Decreased funding and inability to collaborate with international organizations will lead to increased threats from emerging pathogens,†including Ebola, mpox and Zika virus, Vaughan said.

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It was as if talking money, and earning it, would act as a vaccine that endowed our family with immunity against all those nasty lethal airborne pathogens.

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