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What is a pathogen?

What is a pathogen? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (immunology) Any organism or substance, especially a microorganism, capable of causing disease, such as bacteria, viruses, protozoa or fungi. Microorganisms are not considered to be pathogenic until they have reached a population size that is large enough to cause disease.
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Several common weeds, including pigweed, lamb's quarters, and kochia, have been reported to be hosts for the pathogen.
If the pathogen causing reinfection is different from the original pathogen, two weeks of treatment are sufficient.
A gene from a human pathogen is inserted into a bacterium that infects plants.
Plants require dominant or semidominant resistance gene alleles to specifically recognize pathogen ingress.
Higher plants have developed several elaborate mechanisms to ward off pathogen attack.
One possible reason for the different functions encoded by R genes is the different modus operandi employed by different pathogen species.

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