Pathogen or disease-causing agent
Micro-organism
microbe
pathogen
Louis Pasteur discovered that fermentation was caused by a microbe and that the wine went off if other sorts of microbe got into it at the same time.
The accepted phobia name for this condition is Bacillophobia. microbiophobia
yeast
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
The most common name for harmful microbes is germs.
The common cold is caused by a VIRUS not a microbe (a microbe is a bacteria).
yeast
The microbe is virus
Enhances phagocytes by coating a microbe. Opsonization promotes attachment of a phagocyte to a microbe.