pathogens
- plural of pathogen.
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The facility looks more like a hotel than a hospital, said Dr. Gaby Frank, director for the Center for Special Pathogens at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026
The virus that’s found in the Americas tends to cause a cardiopulmonary syndrome, a condition that affects both the heart and the lungs, said Dr. Gaby Frank, director of Johns Hopkins Special Pathogens Center.
From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2026
A paper published this week in the journal Pathogens describes how the team used DNA to confirm the identity of both the snails and the flatworm.
From Science Daily • Mar. 14, 2024
Pathogens often come from overwhelmed water-management systems that trigger sewage outflows—although bacteria such as the “flesh-eating,” wound-infecting Vibrio species can also ride in from the wild on seawater.
From Scientific American • Aug. 30, 2023
C. J. Peters eventually left the Army to become the chief of the Special Pathogens Branch at the Centers for Disease Control.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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