The phrase "aggressive pathogens" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to biology, medicine, or public health to describe pathogens that cause severe or rapid disease progression.
Example: "The outbreak was primarily caused by aggressive pathogens that overwhelmed the immune systems of the affected individuals."
Alternatives: "virulent pathogens" or "highly infectious pathogens".
Such findings are important for refining management of infections in order to offer more stringent treatment against aggressive pathogens.
Opportunistic C. albicans fungi, which often live inconspicuously in the normal flora of human skin and gut, can switch from their harmless stealth mode to become aggressive pathogens, especially in people whose immune systems are already compromised by pre-existing diseases or harsh drug therapies.
However, Candida species behave as aggressive pathogens in immunosuppressed individuals such as HIV patients and cancer patients who are undergoing chemotherapy (Luo et al. 2013).
To the best of our knowledge, when plants were infected with various aggressive pathogens, to protect themselves, they developed various defensive responses, such as defense enzyme activity.
Lentiviral vectors are under intense scrutiny as unique candidate viral vector vaccines against tumor and aggressive pathogens because of their ability to initiate potent and durable specific immune responses.
Microbiological results obtained revealed the presence of aggressive pathogens.
Many of the deaths involved elderly people, who are especially susceptible to the aggressive pathogen.
Organic farmers, who are not permitted to use powerful synthetic fungicides like chlorothalonil, have very few weapons against this aggressive pathogen.
N. meningitidis group B is a Gram-negative encapsulated bacterium and commensal of human nasopharynx, which can become an aggressive pathogen leading to fulminant sepsis and meningitis.
Streptococcus milleri group (SMG) is a common inhabitant of the mouth and gastrointestinal tract, and can be an aggressive pathogen causing abscess formation at various sites in the body.
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