Synonyms for Pathogen
ˈpæθ ə dʒən, -ˌdʒɛnpathogen

Princeton's WordNet

1. pathogennoun

   any disease-producing agent (especially a virus or bacterium or other microorganism)

Matched Categories

1. • Infectious Agent
   • Microorganism

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1. List of paraphrases for "pathogen":

   pathogenic, pathogens, disease-causing, bioweapon, inaequalis, pathogenicity

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1. pathogen

   Synonyms:
   Popularly, bug

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1. Andrew Cunningham:

   It's easy to point the finger at the host species, but actually it's the way we interact with them that has led to the pandemic spread of the pathogen.

2. Wang Linfa:

   The blood samples taken from the bats contain antibodies, which they produced to fight off the virus, these could serve as the basis for the development of a vaccine or a plasma treatment against a new pathogen.

3. Claudia Riegel:

   If you see a rat, you should assume it has some sort of pathogen.

4. Michi Shinohara:

   Regulation of tattoo parlors and tattoo artists is left to the states, and the requirements for operating vary widely from very minimal (bloodborne pathogen training) to fairly complex (hundreds of hours of apprenticeship).

5. Mike Taylor:

   In some areas, like E. coli O157 : H7, concerted strategies by government and industry have sharply reduced the number of illnesses associated with that pathogen.