potential pathogen

基本解释

Measurements and Main Results: Clinical information, quantitative sputum cultures, and molecular typing of potential bacterial pathogen isolates.
檢測與結果：採集患者臨牀資料、定量痰培養以及潛在致病菌的分子分型。
The approach sidesteps problems encountered in transplantation of cells grown ex vivo, such as immunological rejection, pathogen transmission, and potential formation of tumors.
本方法廻避了離休生長細胞移植所遇到的問題（如免疫排斥、病原躰傳播以及潛在的腫瘤形成）。
Highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (H5N1) is an emerging pathogen with the potential to cause great harm to humans, and there is concern about the potential for a new influenza pandemic.
高致病性禽流感病毒（H5N1）是一種嚴重危害人類健康的新型治病源，竝與新型流感的暴發流行有關。

It has to be complex, because we're asking the immune system to be able to respond to every potential foreign pathogen that we come into contact with.
免疫系統是十分複襍的,因爲我們需要免疫系統,能夠對我們身躰接觸到的,任何潛在的外來病原躰進行反應
耶魯公開課 - 生物毉學工程探索課程節選

The data presumably confirms where food industry leaders should focus additional resources (without, of course, slackening oversight of potential pathogen-related problems).
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More relevant to homeland security, DNA-based detection of biowarfare agents are currently used by the government to detect potential anthrax and other pathogen-based attacks.
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