The phrase "as a possible pathogen" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing microorganisms, diseases, or health-related topics where the potential for something to cause illness is being considered.
Example: "The research team is investigating the bacteria found in the water sample as a possible pathogen that could lead to an outbreak."
Alternatives: "as a potential pathogen" or "as a likely pathogen".
Its role as a possible pathogen remains controversial.
All these virulence properties designate AIEC as a possible pathogen potentially able to induce persistent intestinal inflammation, by crossing and breaching the intestinal barrier, moving to deep tissues, and continuously activating macrophages.
Their virulence properties designate AIEC as a possible pathogen potentially able to induce persistent intestinal inflammation, by crossing and breaching the intestinal barrier, moving to deep tissues, promoting granulomas, continuously activating macrophages and producing inflammatory responses [14] [18].
We stress that ESBL-Kp should be considered as a possible pathogen in HD access-related infections.
Considering the high mortality rate, ESBL-Kp should be recognized as a possible pathogen in patients on maintenance HD at high risk of acquiring HD access infections associated with ESBL-producing bacteria.
Influenza virus and B. pertussis co-infections have been also identified as a possible pathogen present in children with community-acquired pneumonia; and the pertussis toxin-mediated suppression have been postulate to be responsible to produce more sever presentations [ 27, 28].
A repeat of the experiment with strain P7 resulted in no further positive results and therefore the strain was eliminated as a possible putative pathogen.
Broad-range polymerase chain reaction identified Mycobacterium neoaurum as the possible pathogen.
We propose that mimivirus be tested as a possible novel human pathogen among ameba-resisting microorganisms.
Effective processing of tissue dispensers is essential to eliminate them as a possible source of pathogen transmission and consecutive infections especially if disinfectants based on QAC, amines or glucoprotamin are used.
37 We found that deployment duration and the number of deployments were similar for veterans who did or did not suffer NDs and PTSD, which argues against NDs or PTSD resulting from factors that may be related to deployment durations such as exposure to a possible Middle East pathogen.
