Synonyms for pathogenic
ˌpæθ əˈdʒɛn ɪkpath·o·gen·ic

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1. infective, morbific, pathogenicadjective

   able to cause disease

   "infective agents"; "pathogenic bacteria"

   Synonyms:
   infective, infectious, morbific

   Antonyms:
   healthful

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1. List of paraphrases for "pathogenic":

   pathogen, pathogens, disease-causing, pathogenicity, pathological

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1. Julie Churchill:

   If pet parents are insistent on feeding raw, I try to steer them toward raw pet foods that have undergone high-pressure pasteurization to decrease the risk of pathogenic bacteria.

2. Emily Sickbert-Bennett:

   Even within our bodies there are a lot of good bacteria that are helping to outcompete the more pathogenic ones and keep us healthy.

3. Robin Foroutan:

   We all have bacteria, yeasts and other types of microbes living in our digestive tracts and many strains of these actually provide a benefit — that's why fermented foods and probiotics are so healthy, but excessive sugar intake can throw off the balance leading to an overgrowth of normally occurring yeast and pathogenic bacteria. This can have a negative effect on our energy, skin, immune function, mood and many other consequences.

4. Cath Rees:

   The main message I get is that they did not find any evidence of pathogenic bacteria on the sponges or brushes taken from a range of domestic settings and therefore there is no evidence that these items are a significant source of contamination in normal domestic settings, if there were some low levels of pathogens left on Cath Rees cloth, they are going to grow quite slowly( they grow optimally at body temperatures), so Cath Rees would not expect to see much growth of these, and this matched their results -- in wet condition there was some limited growth, in drying conditions the numbers either stayed the same or declined.

5. Greg Ibach:

   Unfortunately, Nebraska has joined a long list of states currently dealing with highly pathogenic avian influenza.