First, as a pathogen with a wide host range, as observed in nature, transportable pathogenicity chromosome may increase pathogen's adaptation to environment.
Mycobacterium kansasii, a non-tuberculous mycobacterium (NTM), is an opportunistic pathogen with a predilection for causing pulmonary disease.
Enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) is an emerging pathogen with a potentially high public health significance.
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic pathogen with a particular propensity to cause disease in the immunocompromised.
"The big take-home message is that this is one example, one pathogen, with a potential new route of exposure that we're not aware of," he said.
Human parvovirus B19 is an autonomously replicating human pathogen with a specific tropism for human erythroid progenitor cells.
Another point about vaccine development is that vaccines haven't so far been developed against a pathogen with a lifecycle as complex as that of a plasmodium.
Underlying both is the ability of this eukaryotic pathogen, with a haploid genome for most of its lifecycle, to generate and incorporate DNA mutations.
The other cases, Bill told me, could well have involved a larger spore that was cut with baby powder or another substance to mask the deadly pathogen with a smell that was reassuringly familiar.
It's just like 'C.S.I.' " Hunting bad-guy diseases like phytophthora — a nasty root-rot pathogen with a broad variety of hosts, including rhododendrons and azalea — Dr. Douglas and her slime-scene investigators are relentless.
Fusobacterium nucleatum is an opportunistic pathogen with a key role in subgingival plaque formation and it is found in increased numbers in periodontally affected sites.
