The phrase "a pathogen called" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when introducing or referring to a specific pathogen by its name in a scientific or medical context.
Example: "The study focused on a pathogen called Escherichia coli, which is known to cause foodborne illnesses."
Alternatives: "an organism known as" or "a microbe referred to as".
Studies had shown that a pathogen called the Russian spring-summer encephalitis virus could eradicate tumors in mice.
Worldwide, amphibians have suffered drastic population declines due to climate change, pesticide use, a pathogen called the chytrid fungus and invasive species.
He had never heard of a pathogen called the West Nile virus, which made its strange maiden voyage to the Western Hemisphere last summer, killing seven people around New York, severely sickening 55 others and becoming the first mosquito-borne viral outbreak in the city since yellow fever.
The same infection that bothers so many people with cystic fibrosis -- from a pathogen called pseudomonas aeruginoa -- often attacks people in intensive care units or burn patients, according to Dr. Allen Dozor, the chief of pediatric pulmonology at Westchester Medical Center.
The report cited an official at the same laboratory, which was not named, who told auditors that the facility had lost track of three billion doses of a pathogen called Vesicular stomatitis virus, which can be dangerous to humans and cattle.
For a proof of principle, Nano used a bacterium called Francisella novicida, an innocuous cousin of a human pathogen called F. tularensis.
Each has the Ebola virus surface protein gene stitched into a harmless viral "vector": GSK uses a chimpanzee adenovirus, whereas Merck relies on a livestock pathogen called vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV).
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Liam determines that a fungal pathogen called the Uzumaki is being tested by the Japanese as a biological weapon.
The vaccine is based on a livestock pathogen called vesicular stomatitis virus, which has been engineered to express a glycoprotein also present on Ebola's envelope.
A funguslike pathogen called Phytophthora ramorum hops from plant to plant by riding rivulets of windblown rain, scientists said.
