GC: n

S: CDC – http://www.flu.gov/about_the_flu/h5n1/ (last access: 30 May 2016); Patinf – http://patient.info/doctor/pathogenic-free-living-amoeba (last access: 30 May 2016).

N: 1. “producing disease,” 1836, from French pathogénique, from Greek pathos “disease” + French -génique “producing”. Related: Pathogenetic (1838); pathogenicity.
2. Causing or capable of causing disease.
3. Some bacteria are pathogenic (disease-causing) in man or in domestic animals and plants.
4. As adjectives the difference between pathogenic and pathogenetic is that pathogenic is able to cause (harmful) disease while pathogenetic is of, pertaining to, or causing pathogenesis.

S: 1. OED – http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=pathogenic (last access: 30 May 2016). 2. MW – http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pathogenic (last access: 30 May 2016). 3. TERMIUM PLUS – http://goo.gl/7boMjB (last access: 30 May 2016). 4. Wikidiff – http://wikidiff.com/pathogenetic/pathogenic (last access: 30 May 2016).

SYN: disease-causing

S: TERMIUM PLUS – http://goo.gl/7boMjB (last access: 30 May 2016)

CR: acatalasemia, antifungal, bacterium, carrier, enterovirus, fungus, microorganism, parasite, pathogen, virus.