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  • adjective Not pathogenic.

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non- +‎ pathogenic

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Examples

  • They start out as industrial yeast or nonpathogenic strains of E. coli, but LS9 modifies them by custom-de-signing their DNA.

    Scientists find bugs that eat waste and excrete petrol « Isegoria 2008

  • In a 1992 report, researchers described seven such patients and concluded they shared a "nonpathogenic strain" of HIV.

    A Benign Strain Of The Virus 2008

  • LS9, a Silicon Valley company doing energy research, has found a way to modify a nonpathogenic strain of E. coli so that it creates the equivalent of crude oil as a byproduct of eating agricultural waste.

    Oil 2.0 | clusterflock 2008

  • This supports the view that the two systems diverged from a common ancestor, which could plausibly have been a type III export system functioning in a nonflagellar, nonpathogenic context.

    The Wisdom of Parasites - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • Discussions with Iraqi scientists uncovered agent R&D work that paired overt work with nonpathogenic organisms serving as surrogates for prohibited investigation with pathogenic agents.

    Archive 2003-10-01 2003

  • Discussions with Iraqi scientists uncovered agent R&D work that paired overt work with nonpathogenic organisms serving as surrogates for prohibited investigation with pathogenic agents.

    Medpundit 2003

  • There are nonpathogenic environmental Mycobacteria, and obligate pathogen Mycobacteria like M. tuberculosis and M. leprae, then there are environmental Mycobacteria, such as the M. avium we study, that opportunistically attack immunocompromised patients.

    From the Quote Mines: Phil Skell - The Panda's Thumb 2005

  • He said conventional viruses were either highly pathogenic and easy to transmit, or nonpathogenic and latent and hence very difficult to transmit.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • "One of the things I was curious about was that pathogenic strains of Leishmania have a different sugar coating on them than nonpathogenic strains," Pohl said.

    Infection Control Today News Only Feed 2010

  • In view of this, we used the fast-growing nonpathogenic

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Arunava Dasgupta et al. 2010

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