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/pˌæθəʊdʒˈɛnɪk/
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[ US /ˌpæθəˈdʒɛnɪk/ ]
[ US /ˌpæθəˈdʒɛnɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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able to cause disease
pathogenic bacteria
infective agents
How To Use pathogenic In A Sentence
- This paper summarized Ectropis obliqua Prout s biological control researches from the point of mass rearing, pathogenic natural enemy, predator, parasitoid and pheromone.
- Numerous virulence genes in pathogenic bacteria and viruses have been shown to be under positive selection.
- For example, if an infectious disease is associated with high levels of a factor X in the blood, it is often difficult to know whether this is of pathogenic importance or simply an epiphenomenon of the disease process.
- A conflict or a frustration is not necessarily pathogenic.
- Yes, not actually eating, but the alpha-streptococci emits a type of bactericide which kills the pathogenic bacteria.
- Virulence The relative pathogenicity of an organism; its ability to cause disease.
- If confirmed, these results could constitute a mechanism to control viral entry and cytopathogenic effects. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
- Even with soap "made for sheath washing," the death of the normal "microflora" will allow the resurgence of inappropriate and pathogenic bacteria (capable of causing disease). TheHorse.com News
- Knight had already indicated a correlation of the need of micro-organisms for "growth-factors" with failure of synthesis, and correlated this failure with evolution, particularly in relation to the complex environment of "fastidious" pathogenic micro-organisms. Edward Tatum - Nobel Lecture
- Morelon said that it had to move away from using raw milk in its cheeses due to what he called a slight, but nonetheless real, danger of pathogenic micro organisms in the cheese that had been linked to an alleged 2005 contamination of E coli 026. AP-FoodTechnology RSS