Synonyms for pathogen
ˈpæθ ə dʒən, -ˌdʒɛnpathogen

Princeton's WordNet

1. pathogennoun

   any disease-producing agent (especially a virus or bacterium or other microorganism)

Matched Categories

1. • Infectious Agent
   • Microorganism

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1. List of paraphrases for "pathogen":

   pathogenic, pathogens, disease-causing, bioweapon, inaequalis, pathogenicity

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1. pathogen

   Synonyms:
   Popularly, bug

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1. Andrew Cunningham:

   It's easy to point the finger at the host species, but actually it's the way we interact with them that has led to the pandemic spread of the pathogen.

2. Gerald Keusch:

   No matter the origin, evolution in nature and spillover to humans, accidental release from a lab, or deliberate release or genetic manipulation of a pathogen in the lab the way you develop countermeasures is the same, since one can never say 100% for anything, I think we always need to be aware of all possibilities in order to contravene. But the response to develop what is needed to respond, control and eliminate the outbreak remains the same.

3. World Health Organization:

   Disease X represents the knowledge that a serious international epidemic could be caused by a pathogen currently unknown.

4. The Atlantic:

   Despite some shifting numbers, neither our vaccines nor our immune systems are failing us, or even coming close. Vaccine effectiveness isn’t a monolith, and neither is immunity. Staying safe from a virus depends on host and pathogen alike; a change in either can chip away at the barriers that separate the two without obliterating them, which is exactly what we’re seeing now.

5. Michi Shinohara:

   Regulation of tattoo parlors and tattoo artists is left to the states, and the requirements for operating vary widely from very minimal (bloodborne pathogen training) to fairly complex (hundreds of hours of apprenticeship).