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pathogen

Biological entity that causes disease in its host, which is typically an infectious microorganism or agent, such as a virus, bacterium, protozoan, prion, viroid, or fungus

EntityQ170065

Also known as infectious agent · germ · pathogenic organism · microzyme · zyme

Subclass of

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49 statements · 31% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations

Has effect
Opposite of
Has host
Has characteristic
Different from

On other databases

33 identifiers linking pathogen across the web's reference databases