Mycobacterium tuberculosis is the causative agent of tuberculosis.

结核分枝杆菌是造成结核病的致病菌。

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Syncope can be categorized based on the causative mechanism (See Table below).

根据诱发机制，晕厥可以分为几类。

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But high initial death rates often fall as officials find that the causative microbe also causes mild, even symptomless cases.

常常开始有高死亡率，像官方发现的，致病微生物也能引起轻微的，甚至是没有症状病例。

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However, it is difficult to identify the causative agents in complex chronic diseases, which can take many years to develop.

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These findings suggest that our understanding of the causative factors of atherosclerosis is incomplete, and that atherosclerosis could be inherent to the process of human ageing.

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And the very worst, if the climate change continues to happen in spite of what we do, we will undoubtedly have bought ourselves a lot of extra time to deal with those changes by removing the worst of the causative factors.

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