PATHOGEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pathogen mean? 

• PATHOGEN (noun)
  The noun PATHOGEN has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: PATHOGEN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PATHOGEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("pathogen" is a kind of...):

micro-organism; microorganism (any organism of microscopic size)

infectious agent; infective agent (an agent capable of producing infection)

Derivation:

pathogenic (able to cause disease)

 Context examples 

The hydrochloride salt form of amotosalen, a synthetic psoralen and light-activated DNA, RNA crosslinking agent, with protective activity against pathogens such as bacteria, viruses, protozoa, and leukocytes.

(Amotosalen Hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)

Prior to administration amotosalen is added to plasma and platelets, then in vivo this agent penetrates pathogens and targets DNA and RNA.

(Amotosalen, NCI Thesaurus)

Superbugs are pathogens, or disease-causing microorganisms, resistant to multiple antibiotics.

(New answer to MRSA, other 'superbug' infections: clay minerals?, NSF)

An animal pathogen that is a virus.

(Animal Virus, NCI Thesaurus)

A. butzleri is found in untreated water and slaughter houses and is an emerging foodborne pathogen.

(Arcobacter butzleri, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes calcium release-activated calcium channel protein 1, is involved in the modulation of both T-cell pathogen response and calcium influx.

(ORAI1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Specific families of pattern recognition receptors are responsible for detecting various pathogens and generating innate immune responses.

(NOD-Like Receptor Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

These new insights into pathogenesis are, in turn, stimulating new preventive strategies against disease such as the development of new vaccines against a variety of pathogens.

(New Approaches to Pathogenesis, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein plays a role in both the regulation of cellular calcium concentration and the transcription of pathogen responsive genes.

(Calcium Release-Activated Calcium Channel Protein 1, NCI Thesaurus)

The amphibian chytrid fungus suppresses the immune responses of amphibian hosts, so many researchers doubted that amphibians could acquire effective immunity against this pathogen.

(Amphibians can acquire resistance to deadly fungus, NSF)