Weegy: A pathogen is used to describe an infectious agent — a microorganism, in the widest sense such as a virus, bacterium, prion, fungus or protozoan, that causes disease in its host.
User: What is Salmonella?
Weegy: Salmonella is a group of bacteria that cause typhoid fever, food poisoning, gastroenteritis, enteric fever and other illnesses.
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A pathogen is a virus, bacteria, or organism that causes disease.
Salmonella is a rod-shaped, anaerobic bacteria of the genus Salmonella, as S. typhosa, that may enter the digestive tract in contaminated food.
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