pathogenic agent

collocation in English

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pathogenic
adjective
uk
/ˌpæθ.əˈdʒen.ɪk/us
/ˌpæθ.əˈdʒen.ɪk/
able to ...
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agent
noun[C]
uk
/ˈeɪ.dʒənt/us
/ˈeɪ.dʒənt/
a person who acts for or ...
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(Definition ofpathogenicandagentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Nopathogenicagentwas found to account for the fever.
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Thepathogenicagenthas been a philosophical one.
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Ticks can transfer thepathogenicagentto other animals.
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In all of these instances, an aberrant form of the protein itself appears to be thepathogenicagent.
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Since nopathogenicagenthad been found, these diseases were ruled out as being related.
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A pest is any species, strain or biotype of plant, animal, orpathogenicagentinjurious to plants or plant products.
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In infectious diseases, for example, constant readjustments within changing physical environments occur between pathogenic agents such as micro-organisms and viruses and their human hosts.
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These all have highly transmissible pathogenic agents that induce brain damage.
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An example of this scenario would be the use of gene splicing to unite two pathogenic agents and introducing the resulting novel organism into a population.
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These drugs are natural, semisynthetic, or synthetic substances with selective inhibitory effects against biological pathogenic agents (microorganisms) of humans and animals and against atypical (cancerous) cells.
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