Microbiology: Ditch the term pathogen

Arturo Casadevall () and Liise-anne Pirofski ()
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Arturo Casadevall: Arturo Casadevall and Liise-anne Pirofski are professors of medicine, microbiology and immunology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University, New York, USA.
Liise-anne Pirofski: Arturo Casadevall and Liise-anne Pirofski are professors of medicine, microbiology and immunology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University, New York, USA.

Nature, 2014, vol. 516, issue 7530, 165-166

Abstract: Disease is as much about the host as it is the infectious agent — the focus on microbes is hindering research into treatments, say Arturo Casadevall and Liise-anne Pirofski.

Date: 2014
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