pathogen
noun
path·o·gen
ˈpa-thə-jən 
: a specific causative agent (such as a bacterium or virus) of disease
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These pathogens typically make their way into your body via small cuts or rug burns.
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Juan Manuel Santos, TIME, 28 Jan. 2025
As pathogens become more resistant to existing antibiotics, researchers are hard at work trying to develop new ones.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Jan. 2025
These pathogens typically make their way into your body via small cuts or rug burns.
—Melanie Radzicki McManus, CNN, 25 Jan. 2025
Such an approach could also be a safeguard against wider population exposure to pathogens from lab accidents which may ensue from the inventory research.
—Saleem H. Ali, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
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pathogen
noun
patho·gen
ˈpath-ə-jən
: a specific causative agent (as a bacterium or virus) of disease
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