'pathogens' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to microorganisms or other agents that can cause disease in humans, animals, or plants. Example sentence: Scientists have been studying the effect of antibiotics on the growth of certain pathogens.
"We looked at everything from physical science issues such as the transport of pathogens in water supplies to future conflict issues".
Our inability to see clearly when it comes to defecation directly contributes to 1.2 million children dying every year, still, from something as stupid as diarrhoea, caused by the fact that 2.6 billion people still have no toilets or even a bucket, and so faecal pathogens travel happily from soiled ground onto fingers, into rice pots, into bellies.
As well as injuring coral tissue, fishing lines also give potential pathogens another surface on which to colonise, said Lamb. "Corals have way of fighting pathogens," she said.
During humanure – or thermophilic – composting high temperatures and an array of biologic processes destroy the pathogens in human waste.
She said the fluid nature of the marine environment made isolating which pathogens were responsible for disease difficult.
"To amend the Terrorism Act 2000; to make further provision about terrorism and security; to provide for the freezing of assets; to make provision about immigration and asylum; to amend or extend the criminal law and powers for preventing crime and enforcing that law; to make provision about the control of pathogens and toxins; to provide for the retention of communications data".
"But if the pathogens are getting a one-up by having something to colonise on to, the coral are disadvantaged.
Exposed coral skeleton provides an entry point for pathogens to infect, leading to spreading tissue loss.
Many firms that make DNA to order screen the requests they receive to see if they match known pathogens.
They frequently choose the fast-food route, inserting their head deep into the anus of large decomposing animals and exposing themselves to a mass of faeces-borne pathogens.
These bacteria are symbiotic with their human hosts drawing sustenance from them, but also giving something in return by performing chemical transformations that human cells cannot manage and safely occupying ecological niches that might otherwise be colonised by pathogens.
