How to Use pathogenic in a Sentence

pathogenic

adjective

• This look like a crustose lichen, which is not a pathogenic problem.
  — oregonlive, 25 July 2021
• 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
• Damage caused by pathogenic fungi includes leaf spots, root rot, stem cankers, fruit rot, galls and wilts.
  — NOLA.com, 29 July 2017
• 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
• Meanwhile there are other battle zones in the fight against pathogenic fungi.
  — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 17 May 2018
• 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
• Petal blight is the principle pathogenic scourge of camellias.
  — Joshua Siskin, Orange County Register, 16 Jan. 2025
• 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
• Without all these genetic changes, there would be a chance the virus could revert to a dangerous, pathogenic form.
  — Stephani Sutherland, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2024
• The rise in prices has been largely driven by the highly pathogenic avian influenza, or bird flu, outbreak.
  — Betty Lin-Fisher, USA Today, 10 Apr. 2025
• 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
• 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 good news is, that, for cows, the disease is seldom deadly (or as public health officials say, highly pathogenic).
  — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 24 Feb. 2025
• 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
• In 2020, a new, highly pathogenic form emerged in Europe and spread quickly around the world.
  — Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 4 Oct. 2024
• 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
• 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
• Millions of birds in commercial flocks nationwide have been killed to prevent the spread of the highly pathogenic bird flu virus, which is deadly to poultry.
  — Erin Mansfield, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2025
• Thus far this year, the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian flu has caused outbreaks among cattle and poultry.
  — Katia Hetter, CNN, 4 Sep. 2024
• 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
• The fish themselves can also harbor certain bacteria, which can be really pathogenic for humans as well.
  — Charles Trepany, USA Today, 22 Nov. 2025
• There are many subtypes, but the strain involved in the most recent outbreak is the highly pathogenic H5N1.
  — Amber Sayer, Health, 8 May 2024
• 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
• Among the 11 patients in the new study who had pathogenic variants in UBA1, only two were women.
  — Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 24 Jan. 2023
• Instead of manufacturing a complete pathogen or pathogenic protein in a lab, your body’s own cells handle that step internally.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 27 Mar. 2026
• Work at the facility includes projects on highly pathogenic avian influenza (bird flu), white-nose syndrome in bats, and chronic wasting disease in deer and elk.
  — Madeline Heim, jsonline.com, 8 Dec. 2025
• 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
• And the cause of this fowl occurrence may be highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI).
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 25 June 2022
• 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