A microorganism is pathogenic if it is capable of living as a parasite in a host's body and disrupts the normal functioning of the host, resulting in disease. A pathogen can cause disruption through invasiveness, by spreading through the host's body and multiplying in tissues, or through toxigenicity, by releasing toxic chemicals. Pathogens may be invasive like those that cause plague or anthrax, or non-invasive like Salmonella which causes food poisoning but does not spread from the gut. They may release exotoxins secreted into surroundings or endotoxins contained in cell walls that are released when the bacteria die.