Question

What does pathogenic mean?
Answer

Non-disease producing

Type of bacteria

Disease producing

A protozoan

Answer 1

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A pathogen (Greek: πάθος pathos “suffering, passion” and γενής genēs “producer of”) in the oldest and broadest sense is anything that can produce disease.[1] Typically the term is used to mean an infectious agent (colloquially known as a germ) - a microorganism, in the widest sense such as a virus, bacterium, prion, or fungus, that causes disease in its host. The host may be an animal, a plant, a fungi or even another microorganism.[2][3]


There are several substrates including pathways whereby pathogens can invade a host. The principal pathways have different episodic time frames, but soil contamination has the longest or most persistent potential for harboring a pathogen. Diseases caused by organisms in humans are known as pathogenic diseases. Some of the diseases that a pathogen can cause are smallpox, influenza, mumps, measles, chickenpox, ebola and rubella.



Not all pathogens are necessarily undesirable to humans. In entomology, pathogens are one of the "Three P's" (predators, pathogens and parasitoids) that serve as natural or introduced biological controls to suppress arthropod pest populations.[4]



"Pathogen." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 01 Oct. 2014. Web. 12 Jan. 2014.



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Answer 2

Wow the person above was pretty confusing lol. It is disease producing.

Source: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pathogenic