Pathogen vs Seropositive - What's the difference?
pathogen | seropositive |
(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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(of blood serum) Testing positive for a given pathogen, especially HIV (HIV positive).
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(of a person or animal) Having seropositive blood serum.
As a noun pathogen
is (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.As an adjective seropositive is
.pathogen
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Noun
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Derived terms
* pathogenic * pathogenesis * pathogenous * pathogenyAnagrams
* *seropositive
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Adjective
(-)- Other tests (marked ‘+ +’ in Table 2C.8) are more sensitive in that they produce higher antibody titres but they do not detect substantially more seropositive individuals in a population.