The phrase "a multitude of pathogens" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a large number of different types of pathogens, such as bacteria, viruses, or fungi, in a scientific or medical context.
Example: "The research highlighted the presence of a multitude of pathogens in the contaminated water supply, raising concerns about public health."
Alternatives: "a variety of pathogens" or "numerous pathogens".
For maximal immunological protection against a multitude of pathogens, the adaptive immune response in higher jawed vertebrates causes major histocompatibility complexes (MHC) or human leukocyte antigens (HLA) in human, to bind antigenic peptides (p) and present them as peptide-MHC (pMHC) complexes on the surface of antigen-presenting cells (APC), for recognition by T cell receptors (TR) [1].
As modern diagnostics reveals in most patients a multitude of pathogens, the role of each pathogen should be re-evaluated.
100 With a multitude of pathogens being associated with BRD, identifying such a commonality in bovine response to pathogens will help provide specificity for BRD diagnostics.
It is responsible for the binding and uptake of a multitude of pathogens, such as HIV-1, ebola virus, hepatitis C virus, Candida albicans, and Mycobacterium tuberculosis(7) via oligomannose-dependent interactions.
In fact, transgenic tobacco plants overproducing chicken Bcl-XL proteins, nematode CED-9 and baculovirus Op-IAP have been shown to resist a multitude of pathogens by suppressing cell death (Mitsuhara et al. 1999; Dickman et al. 2001).
Among the various types of treatment available, heat treatment has previously been reported to induce disease resistance in apples, citrus, grapes, peaches, pears and mangos against a multitude of pathogens [ 1- 3].
Plant lectins have already been indicated as participants in the general defense against a multitude of plant pathogens, including nematodes [ 44].
Additionally, the analysis confirmed the differential expression of the malic oxidoreductase (also an antioxidant enzyme) and ricin B-related lectin, that belong to a class of participants in the general defense against a multitude of plant pathogens [ 44].
The high functional plasticity of the TPS-d family and the great diversity of terpenoids produced may impart fitness advantages against a multitude of pests and pathogens.
Longevity depends on effective immune defence against the multitude of pathogens that an individual encounters over its lifetime.
