pathotypen.
/ˈpaθətʌɪp/, U.S. /ˈpæθəˌtaɪp/ Microbiology and Plant Pathology.
A variety of an organism, esp. a microorganism, which causes disease in a particular host or range of hosts; a pathogenically distinct variety of a microorganism.
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intestinal flora1893
gut flora1936
superbug1959
pathotype1961
methylotroph1972
pathovar1975
1961 N. Okabe & M. Goto in Bull. Faculty Agric. Shizuoka Univ. No. 11. 42/1 The presence of physiologically specialized strains or pathotypes.
1972 Farmers Weekly 21 Apr. p. xiii/4 The fear in Britain is that if the frequency of cropping is increased greater selection pressure will result in more of eelworm pathotypes not affected by present resistant varieties.
1988 Ann. Inst. Pasteur: Microbiol. 139 198 This work has attempted to evaluate the efficiency of a set of DNA probes for characterizing the various pathotypes of E. coli isolated from diarrhoeal stools.
1998 Genetics & Breeding 29 67 The object of this study was screening of tomato lines..for resistance to Xanthomonas vesicatoria, tomato and pepper-tomato pathotypes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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