Bacteria vs Pathogen - What's the difference?
bacteria | pathogen |
English plurals
(US) A type, species, or strain of bacterium
* {{quote-book, 2002, A.C. Panchdhari, Water Supply and Sanitary Installations
, passage=Anaerobic bacteria' function in the absence of oxygen, where as aerobic '''bacteria''' require sunlight and also oxygen. Both these ' bacterias are capable of breaking down the organic matter
(US, proscribed)
(pejorative, slang) A derisive term for a lowlife or a slob (could be treated as plural or singular).
(dated, medicine) An oval bacterium, as distinguished from a spherical coccus or rod-shaped bacillus
(pathology, 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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, author=Katie L. Burke
, title=Ecological Dependency
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As nouns the difference between bacteria and pathogen
is that bacteria is plural of lang=enCategory:English plurals while pathogen is 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.bacteria
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Etymology 1
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Usage notes
* This is the plural form of the word. While it is often used as if it were singular (as a collective noun), this is considered nonstandard by some in the US and more elsewhere. See the usage examples under (bacterium).Derived terms
* Bacteria * Eubacteria * Archaebacteria / Archebacteria * eubacteria * archaebacteria / archebacteriaSee also
* culture (collective noun)Etymology 2
From .Noun
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(en noun)citation, passage=In his first book since the 2008 essay collection Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature , David Quammen looks at the natural world from yet another angle: the search for the next human pandemic, what epidemiologists call “the next big one.” His quest leads him around the world to study a variety of suspect zoonoses—animal-hosted pathogens that infect humans.}}