pathogen adaptations

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    • Pathogens possess many adaptations to penetrate the defence barriers of their plant and animal hosts, enhance their transmission and the spread of disease
    • Pathogens have adaptations that maximise the success of their transfer, adhesion and invasion into a host. These strategies are part of the virulence factors of the pathogen
    • Stage of infection:
    • Transmission between hosts
    • Enter the host
    • Multiply in host tissues
    • Resist or stimulate host defence mechanisms
    • Damage the host