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| Name: | pathogen |
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| Description: | A pathogen or infectious agent — colloquially, a germ — is a microbe or microorganism such as a virus, bacterium, prion, or fungus that causes disease in its animal or plant host.[1][2] There are several substrates including pathways whereby pathogens can invade a host; the principal pathways have different episodic time frames, but soil contamination has the longest or most persistent potential for harboring a pathogen. |
| Type: | Noun |
| Term is: | Variable | | Term has: | | |
