pathogen
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While cysts are microscopic, they are relatively large compared to other intracellular pathogens, reaching up to 80 microns across.
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That idea has long been used to describe evolutionary standoffs between species, such as hosts and the parasites or pathogens that attack them.
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No complete genome of the pathogen responsible for pinta has yet been recovered, which leaves questions about its evolutionary relationships and classification.
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Environmental and public health researchers are drawing attention to a little-known group of pathogens that may pose a rising global danger: free living amoebae.
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It is human nature to project our phobias, prejudices and obsessions onto what is simply a biological contest between our immune system and the amoral pathogens trying to replicate themselves within us.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
