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Pathogenic bacteria are those which cause disease. You can identify a link between a bacterium and a disease by isolating the bacterium in a statistically significant number of occurances of the disease. Proving the link is causative is more difficult, but could be done with a cohort study or in vivo experimentation. Probably the most well documented case in recent years is the proving of Helicobacter pylori as a causative agent of stomach ulcers.

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