The phrase "active pathogens" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to biology, medicine, or public health to refer to pathogens that are currently causing disease or infection.
Example: "The laboratory identified several active pathogens in the water sample, indicating a potential health risk for the community."
Alternatives: "live pathogens" or "virulent pathogens".
The use of 16s rRNA from L. pneumophila allowed for the detection of metabolically active pathogens with high sensitivity.
Influenza A virus is one of the most active pathogens in Taiwan causing regular, yearly islandwide epidemics and associated with significant morbidity and mortality in humans [ 7, 8].
Further studies using full colonies and active pathogens will be necessary to determine the effects of behavioral modifications towards unhealthy nestmates on pathogen transmission.
It has been suggested that these differences could be related to missing virulence factors of heat-inactivated pathogens that were used in in vitro experiments compared to the active pathogens used in in vivo models and to other immune cells regulating the gene expression of mammary epithelial cell in vivo [ 8, 45].
Antibodies create a memory of a specific pathogen ("acquired immunity") and enable a more rapid and efficient response to a real infection with an active pathogen.
These experiments were designed to separately assess removal by biochemical inactivation and removal by sedimentation, both of which are active pathogen removal mechanisms in biogas systems [36].
Ineffective cleaning of equipment may actually spread the active pathogen on to other surfaces [ 4, 25].
For example, C. jejuni is a more versatile and metabolically active pathogen than the more specialised H. pylori.
When the microenvironment or active pathogen changes, tissue macrophages can change their functional phenotype [ 8, 9, 16].
The fungus Cryptococcus neoformans escape from host cells by an active, pathogen-driven extrusion/expulsion process, apparently without damaging the host (Alvarez and Casadevall, 2006).
Although substantial efforts have been devoted to understanding chytridiomycosis, a lethal fungal skin disease of amphibians, prior to WNS there had been no in-depth study of disease processes in a metabolically repressed animal caused by a psychrophilic and metabolically active pathogen.
