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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Pathogene  \Path"o*gene\,  n.  [See  {Pathogenic}.]  (Biol.) 
  One  of  a  class  of  virulent  micro["o]rganisms  or  bacteria 
  found  in  the  tissues  and  fluids  in  infectious  diseases,  and 
  supposed  to  be  the  cause  of  the  disease;  a  pathogenic 
  organism;  a  pathogenic  bacterium;  --  opposed  to  zymogene. 

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