has part realized in characteristic of inheres in process pathogenic disposition infectious disposition Albert Goldfain The disposition is realized in a process that has as part a transmission process, an establishment in host process, a process that results in a disorder, and a process in which the bearer of the disposition becomes part of that disorder. The infectious disposition has a complementary disposition that inheres in an organism and is the capability to be host to an organism with an infectious disposition and to undergo processes initiated by that infectious organism that result in a disorder. Lindsay Cowell A pathogenic disposition that inheres in an organism and is a disposition for that organism (1) to be transmitted to a host, (2) to establish itself in the host, (3) to initiate processes that result in a disorder in the host, and (4) to become part of that disorder. Alexander Diehl establishment of localization in host appearance of disorder organism transmission process