► 名詞
病原 [びょうげん] meaning: sick rank: 3
☆ 病原菌 ⇨ A bacteria that causes illness, pathogen (☛ Literally “source of illness”)
More examples:
- 病原菌が抗生物質に耐性を得て来ている ⇨ Pathogens are gaining resistance against antibiotics
- 病原菌は体内で潜行している ⇨ The virus is latent inside the body
- くしゃみをすると病原菌が飛散する ⇨ Pathogens can fly around when you sneeze
- その病原菌は体液の交換は当然のこと、患者に触れるだけで感染する ⇨ The virus will be transmitted through exchanges of bodily fluids of course, but also by just touching the patient
- 病原菌が増殖した ⇨ The virus multiplied, proliferated