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A general term for any non disease causing agent is?
A general term for any non-disease causing agent is ________.
What does a disease causing agent called?
Pathogen
What is the infectious agent called that causes the disease?
Its called "pathogen".
What is the weakened agent of disease that can provide immunity for a particular disease?
That is called a vaccination.
Any agent capable of producing disease-?
Any agent that is capable of producing a disease is known as a pathogen. Pathogens can be bacterial, viral or fungal.
What is a disease-producing agent espescially a virus or bacterium called?
pathogens
What is a disk diffusion test?
In the disk diffusion test (also called the Kirby Bauer test), disks containing an antimicrobial agent are placed on the surface of an agar plate containing a medium that has been inoculated with the disease agent being tested, which will grow and fill the disk. The antimicrobial agent diffuses into the medium, killing some of the disease agent around where the anitmicrobial agent was innoculated, depending on how susceptible the disease agent is to the antimicrobial agent. The size of the area cleared of the disease agent shows how effective the antimicrobial agent is.
What is a disease producing agent especially a virus or bacterium called?
A micro-organism, such as a bacterium, a virus or a fungus, that invades a host and causes a disease is called a pathogen.
What is the medical term meaning any non-disease causing agent?
nonpathogen
What is the name for a living thing upon which a disease agent lives and feeds?
The victim of disease or parasites is called the "host" (host organism).
what does a pathagen do?
A pathogen is any infectious agent/organism that brings disease when comes in contact with a host.
What are complex hereditary diseases?
A pathogen is any infectious agent (parasite, bacteria, virus, fungus, etc.) that causes a disease to its host, the body it affects. Any disease caused by a foreign, biological agent is considered a pathogenic disease. Examples include: tetanus(bacteria), influenza(virus).
