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Who discovered the pathogen for the first time?


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Pathogen:

  1. Pathogen can be defined as an organism that has the potential to cause infectious diseases in its host.
  2. The pathogen then utilizes the host body’s resources to replicate before exiting and spreading to a new host (like a virus).

Discovered by: Dr Robert Koch, a German physician and microbiologist was the first person to discover the disease causing microorganisms, also called the pathogens.


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