How to Use pathogen in a Sentence

pathogen

noun
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  • If that is the case, pathogens could be present in the urine.
    — Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 10 May 2024
  • New encounters with a pathogen catch the body off guard—and tend to be the most severe.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 11 Jan. 2023
  • About 75% of the dogs at Texas A&M tested positive for a known pathogen.
    — Linda Carroll, NBC News, 3 Dec. 2023
  • One is by teaching T-cells to recognize and kill the pathogen.
    — Angus Chen, STAT, 14 Apr. 2022
  • The smaller the filter pores, the smaller the pathogens and toxins that can be strained out of your water.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 9 Aug. 2024
  • But to this day, Sisk is convinced the pathogen wasn’t introduced in her home.
    — Laura Reiley and Jacob Bogage, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Sep. 2022
  • But so too will constructing the genomes of novel pathogens.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Some pathogens, such as the Powassan virus, can transmit in just 15 minutes.
    — Timmy Broderick, Scientific American, 14 June 2023
  • That’s because it isn’t caused by a pathogen that spreads from person to person.
    — Kathryn Watson, SELF, 14 Apr. 2022
  • Then again, it’s not every day that a new pathogen bursts onto the scene, killing millions.
    — Erin Prater, Fortune, 5 June 2022
  • Critics view pathogen research as the Wild West of science.
    — Joel Achenbach, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Jan. 2023
  • That means that hunters may now encounter wildlife that is more likely to transmit a pathogen.
    — Caroline Chen, ProPublica, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Plus, the dye-free soil is made with pine bark that’s treated to prevent the spread of pathogens and invasive species.
    — Renee Freemon Mulvihill, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Jan. 2024
  • In the case of one kind of typhus fever, for example, lice excrete the pathogen in their feces.
    — Ari Daniel, NPR, 3 June 2024
  • The pathogen is known to affect various species of bees and is a leading factor of the bee’s decline.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 4 July 2023
  • That’s because this pathogen tends to spread swiftly and stealthily.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Foodborne pathogens kill thousands of people in the U.S. every year.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The microbiome also helps defend the body against pathogens.
    — Katie Mogg, NBC News, 28 Jan. 2024
  • At the outer limit—in the case of rogue malware or pathogens—such drastic steps might be needed.
    — Mustafa Suleyman, WIRED, 6 Sep. 2023
  • In simplest terms, vaccines are a way to give your immune system a sneak peek at a pathogen.
    — Matthew Woodruff, The Conversation, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Research shows more than half of all the pathogens known to cause disease in humans can be made worse by climate change.
    — Zoya Teirstein, Anchorage Daily News, 19 July 2023
  • This contact is believed to increase the risk of spillover, in which a pathogen moves from one species to another.
    — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 15 July 2022
  • They were exposed to a pathogen that goes by the name Logan Roy, and that disease is irreversible.
    — Vulture, 29 May 2023
  • Nature has always had the ability to concoct nasty pathogens, from the plague to the Spanish Flu.
    — Bloomberg Opinion, Twin Cities, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Lemon juice and hot sauce are not effective at killing those harmful pathogens.
    — Sheri Castle, Southern Living, 21 July 2023
  • For one, hopping in the shower before bed cleans the skin after a day’s worth of exposure to dirt and pathogens.
    — Korin Miller, Health, 16 Mar. 2024
  • There are two different pathogens that cause two types of boxwood blight.
    — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 27 Aug. 2023
  • There are two different pathogens that cause two types of Boxwood Blight.
    — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 16 Mar. 2024
  • But onions have been contaminated with pathogens in recent years: Salmonella outbreaks have been tied to them.
    — Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Paradoxically, however, the researchers found that infection with more than one of these pathogens at the same time may actually have something of a protective effect.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 16 Oct. 2024

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