Disease-causing

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Common synonyms include: blighting, comparative forms of pathogenic, disease causing agent, disease-producing, fungal-pathogenic, human pathogenic fungus.

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blighting comparative forms of pathogenic disease causing agent disease-producing fungal-pathogenic human pathogenic fungus

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benign harmless nonpathogenic nonpathogenic factors

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"The common housefly is unwelcome around food because flies can carry disease-causing germs. Now, scientists have shown that the insects can also spread food poisoning bacteria to chickens in poultry houses. As a result, they say flies are a threat to the safety of poultry products."

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