toxico-infectious pathogen

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-028418",
  "term": "toxico-infectious pathogen",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "One of three broad classes of foodborne pathogens - infectious, toxico-infectious or toxigenic - based on their modes of pathogenicity. Toxico-infectious agents follow a similar three-step process, except that instead of invading the epithelium or body, they remain in the gastro-intestinal tract, where they either produce or release toxins that affect sites of the epithelium and/or within the body. [Buchanan 2000]",
  "references": [
    "Thesaurus of Terms Used in Microbial Risk Assessment"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/toxico-infectious-pathogen/"
}