Disease-causing

Synonyms for "disease-causing" (13 found)

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Closest matches (3)

Noun(3 words)
blightingcomparative forms of pathogenicdisease causing agent

Strong matches (4)

Adjective(4 words)

Related words (6)

Adjective(4 words)
pathogenicpathogenic bacilluspathogenic bacterium genomepathogenic microbe
Noun(2 words)
pathogenic potentialplant pathogen

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

4 relation types

More general

2 entries
biological propertyhealth risk

More specific

3 entries
pathogenic bacteriapathogenic fungipathogenic viruses

Collocations

5 entries
disease-causing agentdisease-causing bacteriadisease-causing mutationdisease-causing toxindisease-causing virus

Inflections

2 entries
more disease-causingmost disease-causing

Sample sentences

4 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

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.

Source: tatoeba (10804022)

Boiling water for one minute will kill most types of disease-causing organisms, such as cholera, typhoid, salmonella, giardia, E. coli, and amoebas.

Source: tatoeba (11660589)

Roughly 253 scientists from 21 countries worked for five years to decipher the genetic blueprints of the single-cell parasites that cause sleeping sickness, leishmaniasis and Chagas disease. Experts say the disease-causing protozoa, which affect 500 million people in the tropics and sub-tropics at any one time, look identical under the microscope, but are spread by different flying insects.

Source: tatoeba (12158719)

Postbiotics instead are beneficial pieces of bacteria cell walls that are easily absorbed by the body, which seem to make insulin work better. Postbiotics can also be derived from disease-causing microbes, say researchers.

Source: tatoeba (12252409)

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