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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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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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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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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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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Food microbiology (redirect from Foodborne pathogens)
food. This includes the study of microorganisms causing food spoilage; pathogens that may cause disease (especially if food is improperly cooked or stored);...
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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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Pathogen avoidance, also referred to as, parasite avoidance or pathogen disgust, refers to the theory that the disgust response, in humans, is an adaptive...
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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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Spillover infection (redirect from Pathogen spillover)
Spillover infection, also known as pathogen spillover and spillover event, occurs when a reservoir population with a high pathogen prevalence comes into contact...
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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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Specific-pathogen-free (SPF) is a term used for laboratory animals that are guaranteed free of particular pathogens. Use of SPF animals ensures that specified...
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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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Pathogenic fungus (redirect from Fungal pathogen)
In 2022 the World Health Organization (WHO) published a list of fungal pathogens which should be a priority for public health action. Markedly more fungi...
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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 parasitic worms, as well as cancer cells and objects...
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Emerging infectious disease (redirect from Novel pathogen)
mechanism. Emerging infections account for at least 12% of all human pathogens. EIDs can be caused by newly identified microbes, including novel species...
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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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PLOS Pathogens is a peer-reviewed open-access medical journal. All content in PLOS Pathogens is published under the Creative Commons "by-attribution"...
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Opportunistic infection (redirect from Opportunistic pathogen)
An opportunistic infection is an infection caused by pathogens (bacteria, fungi, parasites or viruses) that take advantage of an opportunity not normally...
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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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genetic change in the pathogen reservoir or the introduction of an emerging pathogen to a host population (by movement of pathogen or host). Generally,...
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Wheat diseases (redirect from Fungal wheat pathogen)
The cereal grain wheat is subject to numerous wheat diseases, including bacterial, viral and fungal diseases, as well as parasitic infestations. Barley...
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List of durian diseases and pests (redirect from Durian pathogens)
Durians are an agricultural product affected by many plant pathogens and pests. Most of the information here concerns Durio zibethinus, the major commercial...
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Parasite-stress theory (redirect from Pathogen-stress theory)
Parasite-stress theory, or pathogen-stress theory, is a theory of human evolution proposing that parasites and diseases encountered by a species shape...
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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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Osmophile (redirect from Saccharophilic pathogen)
An osmophile is an extremophile microorganism adapted to environments generating high osmotic pressures, such as aqueous solutions with high salt or sugar...
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Fish diseases and parasites (redirect from Fish pathogen)
the epidermis that traps microorganisms and inhibits their growth. If pathogens breach these defences, fish can develop inflammatory responses that increase...
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