There is a possibility that infants carrying infectious pathogens in their noses can infect their mothers; the clinical significance of this finding is still unknown.

All fish carry pathogens and parasites.

Hands often act as vectors that carry disease-causing pathogens from person to person, either through direct contact or indirectly via surfaces.

But the colonists also inadvertently carried pathogens, weeds, and rats.

Undercooked and raw meat, fish and shellfish may carry intestinal pathogens.

There is no evidence that bed bugs transmit infectious diseases even though they appear physically capable of carrying pathogens and this possibility has been investigated.

Plants do not carry pathogens that might be dangerous to human health.

The flies in poorer and lower-hygiene areas usually carry more pathogens.

They have been noted as having the potential to carry pathogens in hospital environments.

But a study released yesterday found a new one: Almost half the ties worn by doctors in a Queens hospital proved to be carrying pathogens.