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. Maria Van Kerkhove:

   This is a respiratory pathogen and so it is important that what we know fits into the guidance that we have, which is why a comprehensive package of interventions are required to be able to stop transmission, this includes not only physical distancing. It includes the use of masks where appropriate in certain settings, specifically where you can't do physical distancing, and especially for health care workers.

2. Charles Gerba:

   A lot of people just spray like a blessing and then wipe, the compound gets caught up in the cloth, so it's not as effective. But the wipes have the right dose and they have to dry, which helps kill the pathogen.

3. 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).

4. Eric Toner:

   We don’t have the ability to produce vaccines to a novel pathogen within months rather than decades and we don’t have the global public health capabilities that would allow us to rapidly identify and control an outbreak before it becomes a pandemic.

5. Arnold Monto:

   We know there are going to be cases, with the flu, we've had experience with flu pandemics before. So we know typically the way they behave. This has been an evolving situation with a totally novel pathogen.