pathogen

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  An agent that can cause disease, especially an infectious microorganism, such as a bacterium, virus, protozoon or fungus.

Usage notes
In most contexts, the term pathogen is exclusively applied to infectious microorganisms, including viruses, and does not cover harmful substances such as asbestos or various toxins. Some authors reserve the term for the microorganisms that are the actual cause of an observed case of disease, so in this usage the same microorganism that is pathogenic in one host may not be categorized as a pathogen in another infected host.

Translations

 * Albanian: sëmundjeshkaktues
 * Arabic: مسببات الأمراض
 * Bulgarian: болестотворен организъм
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: patogen
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: פתוגן
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Irish: pataigin
 * Italian:, agente patogeno
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kannada:
 * Kazakh: патоген
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: hokara nexweşiyê, tûşker
 * Latin: pathogenum
 * Latvian: patogēns
 * Lithuanian: patogenas, ligos sukėlėjas
 * Malay: patogen
 * Maori: tukumate, moroiti tahumaero
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: patogen
 * Nynorsk: patogen
 * Occitan:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: patógeno
 * Quechua: unquchiq
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: patogén
 * Slovene: patogen
 * Spanish:
 * Sundanese: ᮊᮥᮙᮔ᮪
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: mulsakit
 * Tamil: நோய்க்காரணி
 * Telugu: వ్యాధికారకం
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: патоген
 * Vietnamese:

Etymology
From +. Equivalent to +.

Adjective

 * 1) pathogenic