pathogen

English

Etymology

From patho- +‎ -gen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpæθədʒn̩/
• Hyphenation: path‧o‧gen

Noun

pathogen (plural pathogens)

1. (pathology, 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.
   • 2013 January, Katie L. Burke, “Ecological Dependency”, in American Scientist‎^[1], volume 101, number 1, page 64:

     In his first book since the 2008 essay collection Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature, David Quammen looks at the natural world from yet another angle: the search for the next human pandemic, what epidemiologists call “the next big one.” His quest leads him around the world to study a variety of suspect zoonoses—animal-hosted pathogens that infect humans.

Derived terms

• antipathogen
• biopathogen
• copathogen
• endopathogen
• enteropathogen
• entomopathogen
• exopathogen
• mycopathogen
• neuropathogen
• nonpathogen
• odontopathogen
• otopathogen
• pathogenesis
• pathogenesis
• pathogenic
• pathogenous
• pathogeny
• periodontopathogen
• periopathogen
• phytopathogen
• uropathogen
• zoopathogen

 

Translations

an organism or substance that causes disease

• Albanian: sëmundjeshkaktues
• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: patogen (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 病原體／病原体 (zh) (bìngyuántǐ), 病原体 (zh) (bìngyuántǐ)

• Dutch: pathogeen (nl), ziektekiem (nl) f
• Finnish: patogeeni (fi), taudinaiheuttaja (fi)
• French: agent pathogène (fr)
• German: Krankheitserreger (de) m
• Greek: παθογόνος (el) m (pathogónos)
• Hebrew: פתוגן m (patogen)
• Hungarian: kórokozó (hu), patogén (hu)
• Irish: pataigin f
• Italian: patogeno (it) m, agente patogeno m
• Japanese: 病原体 (ja) (びょうげんたい, byōgentai), 病原菌 (ja) (びょうげんきん, byōgenkin) (especially for microorganism)
• Kannada: ರೋಗಾಣು (kn) (rōgāṇu)
• Kurdish:
• Latvian: patogēns m
• Lithuanian: patogenas m, ligos sukėlėjas m
• Maori: tukumate, tukumate
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: patogen n

  Nynorsk: patogen n

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• Persian: بیماری‌زا (fa) (bimâri-zâ)
• Polish: patogen
• Portuguese: patógeno m
• Quechua: unquchiq
• Romanian: agent patogen (ro)
• Russian: патоге́н (ru) m (patogén)
• Slovak: patogén
• Slovene: patogen m
• Spanish: patógeno (es) m
• Sundanese: ᮊᮥᮙᮔ᮪ (kuman)
• Swedish: patogen (sv) c
• Tagalog: mulsakit
• Tamil: நோய்க்காரணி (nōykkāraṇi)
• Telugu: వ్యాధికారకం (vyādhikārakaṁ)
• Turkish: patojen (tr)
• Ukrainian: патоген m (patohen)
• Vietnamese: mầm bệnh (vi)

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