NURSING ANM AND GNM

Detailed explanation-1: -Pathogenic organisms are of five main types: viruses, bacteria, fungi, protozoa, and worms.

Detailed explanation-2: -Pathogens are microbes that harm their host and cause the particular symptoms we recognise as an infectious disease. Pathogens come from four of the five groups of microbes: viruses, bacteria, fungi and protists.

Detailed explanation-3: -Infectious diseases are caused by pathogens, which include bacteria, fungi, protozoa, worms, viruses, and even infectious proteins called prions.

Detailed explanation-4: -Fungi, fungal-like organisms, bacteria, phytoplasmas, viruses, viroids, nematodes and parasitic higher plants are all plant pathogens.