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A pathogen causes a disease while a contagion spreads a disease by direct or indirect contact.

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The broad term for a microbe that causes a transmitted infection is?

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What is the difference between antigens and pathogen's?

An antigen is a body's system for creating antibodies to fight infection. A pathogen is an infectious agent (or germ).


What is the difference between a lethal and nonlethal contagion?

the difference between nonlethal and lethal is that they both have lethal in there but non means no so nonlethal means no lethal at all. judy wardell=]


What is the difference between a disease and a pathogen?

Pathogen is the agent or the culprit that causes a disease while the disease is the end result of what a pathogen did. Example: HIV virus is the pathogen while AIDS is the disease state that can result from high HIV viral load.


What is the difference between a carrier and a vector?

A carrier is an organism that harbors and transmits a pathogen without getting sick, while a vector is an organism that transmits a pathogen from one host to another. Carriers may not show symptoms but can pass on the pathogen, whereas vectors are necessary for the pathogen to be transmitted between hosts.


What is the difference between opsonization and neutralization?

Opsonization involves an antibody binding to a pathogen itself while neutralizing invovles an antibody binding to a toxin, AKA something the pathogen produces.


What is the difference between a pathogen and a disease?

Pathogen is the agent or the culprit that causes a disease while the disease is the end result of what a pathogen did. Example: HIV virus is the pathogen while AIDS is the disease state that can result from high HIV viral load.


When was Contagion released?

Contagion - film - was created on 2011-09-09.


What was the Production Budget for Contagion?

The Production Budget for Contagion was $60,000,000.


What is the duration of Contagion film?

The duration of Contagion - film - is 1.77 hours.


How is contagion used in a sentence?

Contagion might be used when refering to something infectious, for example... The fear of contagion prevented him from going to public places.


The author makes a distinction between lethal and nonlethal contagion.what is the difference?

Lethal contagion refers to diseases that have a high mortality rate and can be fatal, while nonlethal contagion refers to diseases that may cause illness but have a lower mortality rate or are not directly life-threatening. The distinction is important in assessing the potential impact of a contagious disease on a population.