How to Use pathogenic in a Sentence

pathogenic

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  • The highly pathogenic strain of flu that's deadly to birds has spread to at least 58 herds in nine states and at least two people.
    — NPR, 27 May 2024
  • The soil is full of pathogenic fungi just waiting for a nice juicy fire ant to blunder into them.
    — Jennifer Frazer, Scientific American, 21 Nov. 2020
  • Among the 11 patients in the new study who had pathogenic variants in UBA1, only two were women.
    — Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 24 Jan. 2023
  • This look like a crustose lichen, which is not a pathogenic problem.
    — oregonlive, 25 July 2021
  • The idea is to use those technologies to look for microbes that are—or have become—pathogenic.
    — Adam Rogers, Wired, 5 Apr. 2021
  • Many insects have a taste for the same plants humans do, and pathogenic microbes infect leaves, shoots and roots.
    — Brooke Borel, Scientific American, 18 June 2018
  • There are many subtypes, but the strain involved in the most recent outbreak is the highly pathogenic H5N1.
    — Amber Sayer, Health, 8 May 2024
  • Last April, the zoo had to quarantine some birds due to the nationwide spread of the highly pathogenic avian influenza.
    — Megan Becka, cleveland, 23 Jan. 2023
  • To discourage the spread of pathogenic bacteria, make sure your fridge is set to 40°F or lower.
    — Zoe Denenberg, Bon Appétit, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Damage caused by pathogenic fungi includes leaf spots, root rot, stem cankers, fruit rot, galls and wilts.
    — NOLA.com, 29 July 2017
  • So far, no proof exists of mutations that would make the virus more pathogenic or that might help the virus evade immunity.
    — Jop De Vrieze, Science | AAAS, 18 Nov. 2020
  • One of the four on WHO’s list of the most critical species is cryptococcus neoformans, a pathogenic yeast that lives in the soil.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN, 7 Feb. 2023
  • As of late May, the highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza had been detected in just one backyard flock in Mat-Su.
    — Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 27 May 2022
  • The culprit was a continued battle against the highly pathogenic avian influenza, known in short as HPAI or the bird flu.
    — Alex Harring,gabriel Cortés, CNBC, 17 Aug. 2024
  • Whether the changes will lead to variants that are more pathogenic or transmissible is unclear, the researchers say.
    — Byrobert F. Service, science.org, 1 Feb. 2023
  • More than 100 black vultures have been found dead near the Conowingo Dam since mid-April after an outbreak of the highly pathogenic avian flu, officials say.
    — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 10 May 2022
  • The man worked on a farm with cattle infected with the highly pathogenic H5N1 influenza strain that's spreading across the U.S. in poultry and dairy cows.
    — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 22 May 2024
  • The lab techs use primers, short sequences of genetic code, to copy snippets of viral RNA common to groups of pathogenic viruses.
    — Alexandra Ossola, Quartz, 22 Jan. 2020
  • Containing the spread of this highly pathogenic bird flu strain in cattle hinges on our ability to detect and track it.
    — Michael Mina, TIME, 9 May 2024
  • The next year, a highly pathogenic form of avian influenza, H5N1, leaped from waterfowl to chickens and then to humans.
    — Benjamin Wallace-Well, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021
  • The type of avian influenza detected at the commercial farm was the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain, the release said.
    — Cristina Larue, Arkansas Online, 8 Oct. 2022
  • But in Europe a highly pathogenic strain became epidemic in numerous species of wild birds by 2021, and the strain reached the U.S. the following year.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 29 Aug. 2023
  • And the cause of this fowl occurrence may be highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI).
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 25 June 2022
  • The goose and six of the swans were sent for testing and all came back positive for the highly pathogenic avian influenza, also known as bird flu, town officials said.
    — Kate Armanini, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Apr. 2023
  • This has occurred recently in the worldwide spread of the highly pathogenic avian influenza that has killed large numbers of birds across species.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 17 Apr. 2023
  • With those in hand, the team then studied the bacterial strains, 222 in all, found with corals that are resistant to disease to see if any of them showed promise at acting against the pathogenic strains.
    — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Meanwhile there are other battle zones in the fight against pathogenic fungi.
    — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 17 May 2018
  • Mat-Su Alaska has identified its first case involving the highly pathogenic bird flu viruses that have led to the deaths of millions of birds across the Lower 48 this year.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 1 May 2022
  • Jennie-O’s statement said that low pathogenic flu like in its flock is common in North America.
    — Don Davis, Twin Cities, 8 Mar. 2017
  • In 2015, an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza in commercial poultry farms reached its peak in April and May, the same time birds migrated north.
    — Todd Cornish, The Conversation, 25 Apr. 2024

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