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What is a disease producing agent especially a virus or bacterium called?
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A micro-organism, such as a bacterium, a virus or a fungus, that invades a host and causes a disease is called a pathogen.
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What is a disease-producing agent espescially a virus or bacterium called?
pathogens
What is the term for disease producing?
Pathologic is a commonly used term that means "disease-producing". For example, a bacterium that causes disease is commonly called a pathologic bacterium.Pathogenesis is the condition of producing disease.
What is the medical term for chronic infection with spirochete bacterium?
what is the sexually transmitted disease called with chronic infection with a spirochete bacterium
What organism produces disease?
bacterium Not all bacteria produce disease, viruses do too. It would be called a pathogen.
Who created leprosy?
No one can create a disease. It is caused by a bacterium called Mycobacterium leprae. It was discovered by G.H. Armauer Hansen in Norway in 1873, making it the first bacterium to be identified as causing disease in humans.
The period when a bacterium or virus is actively multiplying inside the body without producing symptoms of illness is called?
Incubation.
What disease is caused by a bacterium called Legionella pneumophila which attacks the white blood cells that usually attack infections?
Legionnaires' disease
What is the strength or disease-producing power of microorganisms called?
That is called as 'Pathogenicity' of the organism.
A microorganism's disease-producing power is called?
virulence
What is Rat-Bite fever?
Rat-Bite fever is a rare disease caused by a bacterium called Streptobacillus moniliformis. This bacterium is found worldwide. However, in Asia, the bacterium Spirillum minus also causes Rat-Bite fever. 50-100 % of wild rats carry this disease.
The acute infectious disease cause by the spore forming bacterium bacillus anthracis is called?
Anthrax
What is the scientific name for Bubonic Plague?
AnswerThe Black Death is believed to have been caused by a bacterium, Yersinia pestis, and the disease is called bubonic plague. AnswerThe Black Plague was caused by the bacterium, Yersinia pestis, which was formerly Pasteurella pestis. The disease vectors were rodents, especially rats, and fleas. The Black Death or Black Plague was a specific outbreak of bubonic plague in Europe during 1346 to 1351.
