pathogen may also be referred to as an infectious agent, or simply a germ. The term pathogen came into use in the 1880s. Typically, the term pathogen...
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medicine, public health, and biology, transmission is the passing of a pathogen causing communicable disease from an infected host individual or group...
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to: Pathogen (Two Steps from Hell album), 2007 Pathogen (Made of Hate album), 2010 Pathogen (film), a 2006 zombie horror independent film "Pathogen" (Stargate...
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Plant pathology (redirect from Seed transmitted pathogen)
caused by pathogens (infectious organisms) and environmental conditions (physiological factors). Plant pathology involves the study of pathogen identification...
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A human pathogen is a pathogen (microbe or microorganism such as a virus, bacterium, prion, or fungus) that causes disease in humans. The human physiological...
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Infection (section Primary pathogens)
An infection is the invasion of tissues by pathogens, their multiplication, and the reaction of host tissues to the infectious agent and the toxins they...
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Plant disease (redirect from Plant pathogen)
Plant diseases are diseases in plants caused by pathogens (infectious organisms) and environmental conditions (physiological factors). Organisms that...
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Disease X (redirect from Pathogen X)
unknown pathogen. The WHO adopted the placeholder name to ensure that their planning was sufficiently flexible to adapt to an unknown pathogen (e.g., broader...
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specific environment in which an infectious pathogen naturally lives and reproduces, or upon which the pathogen primarily depends for its survival. A reservoir...
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Immune system (section Manipulation by pathogens)
organism from diseases. It detects and responds to a wide variety of pathogens, from viruses to bacteria, as well as cancer cells, parasitic worms, and...
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Pathogenic bacteria (redirect from Bacterial pathogen)
body, such as the blood, where bacteria are not normally found. Some pathogens invade only the surface epithelium, skin or mucous membrane, but many...
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Microbial pathogenesis (redirect from Microbial Pathogens)
created a powerful means for identifying previously unknown microbial pathogens and for studying the host-parasite relationship." In 1996, Fredricks and...
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Contagion (2011 film) (redirect from MEV-1 (fictional pathogen))
Organization Orantes' main objective is to trace the origins of the MEV-1 pathogen. Cotillard, a fan of Soderbergh's work, first met with the director in...
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Pathogen is a 2006 zombie horror independent film written, directed, and produced by Emily Hagins, who was twelve at the time of the film's production...
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Epidemiology (redirect from Pathogen dynamics)
the 2010s.[excessive citations] By 2012, it was recognized that many pathogens' evolution is rapid enough to be highly relevant to epidemiology, and...
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The host-pathogen interaction is defined as how microbes or viruses sustain themselves within host organisms on a molecular, cellular, organismal or population...
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Ancient pathogen genomics is a scientific field related to the study of pathogen genomes recovered from ancient human, plant or animal remains. Ancient...
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Blood-borne disease (redirect from Blood-borne pathogens)
through contamination by blood and other body fluids. Blood can contain pathogens of various types, chief among which are microorganisms, like bacteria...
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ESKAPE (redirect from ESKAPE pathogens)
scientific names of six highly virulent and antibiotic resistant bacterial pathogens including: Enterococcus faecium, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae...
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Pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) are small molecular motifs conserved within a class of microbes, but not present in the host. They are recognized...
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Pathogen avoidance (also parasite avoidance or pathogen disgust) refers to the theory that the disgust response, in humans, is an adaptive system that...
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Plant disease resistance protects plants from pathogens in two ways: by pre-formed structures and chemicals, and by infection-induced responses of the...
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Intracellular parasite (redirect from Intracellular pathogen)
reproducing inside the cells of a host. They are also called intracellular pathogens. There are two main types of intracellular parasites: Facultative and...
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Zoonosis (redirect from Transmission of pathogens from animals to humans)
zoonoses) or zoonotic disease is an infectious disease of humans caused by a pathogen (an infectious agent, such as a bacterium, virus, parasite, or prion) that...
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A soil borne pathogen is a disease-causing agent which lives both in soil and in a plant host, and which will tend to infect undiseased plants which are...
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Eradication of infectious diseases (redirect from Pathogen eradication)
use of the term 'eradication' to refer to the total removal of a given pathogen from an individual (also known as clearance of an infection), particularly...
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Opportunistic infection (redirect from Opportunistic pathogen)
of infections are considered serious and can be caused by a variety of pathogens including viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites. Under normal conditions...
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Airborne transmission (redirect from Airborne pathogen)
Smaller particles can carry airborne pathogens for extended periods of time. While the concentration of airborne pathogens is greater within 2m, they can travel...
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Directed therapy (redirect from Pathogen-directed therapy)
Directed therapy refers to the treatment of infections based on specific knowledge of what the causal agent is able to be treated with. It is the opposite...
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Pathogen reduction using riboflavin and UV light is a method by which infectious pathogens in blood for transfusion are inactivated by adding riboflavin...
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