| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - A pathogen (Greek: ?????????? pathos ???suffering, passion??? and -?????????? -gen??s ???producer of???) in the oldest and broadest sense is anything that can produce disease, a term which came into use in the 1880s.[1][2] Typically the term is used to describe an infectious agent such as a virus, bacterium, prion, fungus, viroid, or parasite that causes disease in its host.
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