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pathogens

pathogens is the plural of pathogen.

Meaning of pathogen

Noun

pathogen (plural pathogens)

  1. An agent that can cause disease, especially an infectious microorganism, such as a bacterium, virus, protozoon or fungus.
    • In his first book since the 2008 essay collection Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature, David Quammen looks at the natural world from yet another angle: the search for the next human pandemic, what epidemiologists call “the next big one.” His quest leads him around the world to study...2013 January, Katie L. Burke, “Ecological Dependency”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, archived from the original on 09 Feb 2017, page 64

Questions about pathogens

What is pathogens the plural of?
Pathogens is the plural of pathogen.

Words near pathogens in the dictionary

  1. pathogenies
  2. pathogenity
  3. pathogenomic
  4. pathogenomics
  5. pathogenous
  6. pathogens
  7. pathogeny
  8. pathogeographic
  9. pathogeography
  10. pathoglycemia
  11. pathognomic

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