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What is a pathogen?

What is a pathogen? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (immunology) Any organism or substance, especially a microorganism, capable of causing disease, such as bacteria, viruses, protozoa or fungi. Microorganisms are not considered to be pathogenic until they have reached a population size that is large enough to cause disease.
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Proactive primary prevention presumes that the pathogen can be attenuated or prevented from reaching the individual.
If the pathogen causing reinfection is different from the original pathogen, two weeks of treatment are sufficient.
With antimicrobials our expectation is that the infecting pathogen will be killed, but the myriad normal bacteria are also exposed.
Higher plants have developed several elaborate mechanisms to ward off pathogen attack.
Several common weeds, including pigweed, lamb's quarters, and kochia, have been reported to be hosts for the pathogen.
Plants require dominant or semidominant resistance gene alleles to specifically recognize pathogen ingress.

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