Pest vs Pathogen - What's the difference?
pest | pathogen |
(originally) A plague, pestilence, epidemic
An annoying, harmful, often destructive creature.
An annoying person.
(British, slang) Someone with poor social discipline who continually bothers uninterested women.
(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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As nouns the difference between pest and pathogen
is that pest is plague while 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.pest
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(en noun)- Stop being such a pest and leave that girl alone!
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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.}}