Pathogen in a sentence as a noun

Isn't the evolution of cancer cells rather more constrained than your average pathogen?

I'm not an expert in virology, but I believe that there are two requirements for a pathogen to become airborne:A.

A normal pathogen can infect many thousands or millions of hosts, and can evolve immunities over many years, decades or centuries.

One of the goals of vaccination is to deprive pathogens of an environment faster than selection pressure allows the pathogen to evade the vaccine.

I've worked on phage targeting various Salmonella serovars, and while you do require cocktails for the most effective treatment, but phage evolve along with the pathogen.

It's not impossible that a targeted antibiotic that eliminates this pathogen would have an effect on the body composition of the host.

Modern molecular breeding techniques greatly alleviates this because we can see which varieties confer resistance to a pathogen or pest, and then breed in those select traits.

And a viral pathogen is different from a computer virus, but that term has been adopted because it effectively used an existing term to clarify the behavior of an unfamiliar phenomenon.

Pathogen definitions

noun

any disease-producing agent (especially a virus or bacterium or other microorganism)