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Перевод: pathogenic
[прилагательное] болезнетворный; патогенный
Тезаурус:
- Dubos published two papers in 1939 describing the extraction from a soil bacillus of a substance, active against some pathogenic micro-organisms, which cured mice infected with pneumococci upon injection.
- Similarly, a person can attempt to avoid infection by washing hands before handling and eating food, but nevertheless, is dependent on others as to whether or not the food itself was free of pathogenic microorganisms when it was purchased.
- A success story of the 20th century is the discovery of antibiotics, substances which can be introduced into the human body to combat pathogenic microorganisms.
- The intact skin, usually a barrier to infection, can sometimes be successfully invaded by pathogenic microorganisms, as can the body's mucous membranes (e.g. the conjunctiva).
- With non-gonococcal urethritis there may be an equal pus-cell response with the difference that there are no pathogenic organisms to be found under the microscope.
- In any scheme aimed at preventing infection, destruction of the pathogenic microorganisms plays a large part.
- Animals provide another source of infection in the environment and, like humans, animals can harbour and spread pathogenic microorganisms.
- By far the most important of these is Bacillus thuringiensis ) ( Bt ), but B. sphaericus is highly pathogenic to mosquitoes and B. popillae has been used to control scarab beetles, which are serious pasture pests.
- Some pathogenic organisms may not manifest their disease-provoking properties in certain sites, where they may behave as commensals.
- Because they live in this way, viruses are often pathogenic - they cause disease.
- No doubt many, probably a majority, of the cases of non-gonococcal urethritis are due to infectious organisms, but there remains a hard core of cases from which no pathogenic germs can be isolated and for which it is just conceivable that antibiotic treatment may not be the best therapy.
- If the foreign gene codes for a protein that is toxic to insects or which affects their metabolism, then the resultant recombinant virus may well be more pathogenic than the wild-type virus.
- But there is some question of a pathogenic secret, of the recovery of material hitherto repressed which influenced his perception of his mother: and his understanding of the past would certainly appear to have been enlarged by his researches.
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