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What are infectious agents?

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PATHOGEN: in biology, a pathogen in the oldest and broadest sense, it is anything that can produce disease. A pathogen can also be referred to as an infectious agent or a germ.
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Step-by-step explanation:

infectious agent - an agent capable of producing infection. infective agent. virus - (virology) ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts

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