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What is a true pathogen and an opportunistic pathogen?

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True Pathogen- are capable of causing disease in healthy persons with normal immune defenses ex. influenza virus, plague bacillus, and ect
Opportunistic pathogen- cause disease when the host's defenses are compromised or when they grow in part of the body that is not natural to them

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