In a comparison of two pathogens,organism A has an infectious dose of 200,000 organisms,whereas organism B has an infectious dose of 15 organisms. This means that organism A is much more pathogenic than organism B.

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In a comparison of two pathogens,organism A has an infectious dose of 200,000 organisms,whereas organism B has an infectious dose of 15 organisms.  This means that organism A is much more pathogenic than organism B.

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Organism B is actually much more pathogenic than organism A because it has a much lower infectious dose, meaning that it takes much fewer organisms of organism B to cause an infection compared to organism A.

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