- plural of pathogen.
pathogens
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Their work suggests that materials preserved for entirely different purposes may contain valuable clues about the emergence, spread, and evolution of pathogens that continue to affect the world today.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 2026
"Ancient genomes can help us understand how these pathogens affecting us today evolved. We find that unlike the smallpox virus, the sheeppox virus genome was very stable over the last few millennia."
From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 2026
Samples tested found norovirus, campylobacter, shigella and "other pathogens that cause stomach cramps and diarrhoea", officials said.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
They identified how these proteins recognize invading pathogens and demonstrated that they can be modified to detect multiple fungal threats.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026
All those microbes are still at an early stage in their evolution into specialized human pathogens.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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