Pathogens enter the skin through which means?

a. bites of other organisms
b. diffusion across the stratum corneum
c. breaks in the skin
d. digestive enzymes creating passage


a. bites of other organisms
c. breaks in the skin
d. digestive enzymes creating passage

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