Look up: Virulence

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   Virulence
   The degree of ability of an organism to cause disease.
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   virulence
   The degree of pathogenicity of a given pathogen.
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   Virulence
   Relative capacity to cause disease; degree or measure of pathogenicity of a pathogen. Sometimes restricted to cases in which races interact differentially with host cultivars.
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   virulence
   [n] - extreme harmfulness (as the capacity of a microorganism to cause disease) 2. [n] - extreme hostility
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   Virulence
   Ability (of pathogens) to infect organisms and cause disease
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   Virulence
   the relative ability of an organism to cause disease
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   Virulence
   Virulence: The ability of any agent of infection to produce disease. The virulence of a microorganism (such as a bacterium or virus) is a measure of the severity of the disease it is capable of causing. The adjective virulent implies extremely noxious, damaging, deleterious, disease-causing (pathogenic). Marked by a rapid, severe, and malignant cou ...
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   virulence
   the relative ability of an organism to produce disease.; the capacity of any organism to produce disease in any stated host Category: Medicine
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   virulence
   <microbiology> The degree or ability of a pathogenic organism to cause disease. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...
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    virulence
    virulency noun extreme harmfulness (as the capacity of a microorganism to cause disease); `the virulence of the plague`
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    Virulence
    `Virulence` refers to the degree of pathogenicity of a microbe, or in other words the relative ability of a microbe to cause disease. The word `virulent`, which is the adjective for virulence, derives from the Latin word `virulentus`, which means `full of poison.` From an ecological point of view, virulence can be defined as the host's parasite-induced loss of fitness.
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    virulence
    (vir´u-lәns) the degree of pathogenicity of a microorganism as indicated by case fatality rates or its ability to invade the tissues of the host. by extension, the competence of any infectious agent to produce pathologic effects. adj., vir´ulent., adj.
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    Virulence
    • (n.) Alt. of Virulency
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    virulence
    (from the article `bacteria`) ...of antibacterial antibiotics, the incidence of bacterial disease has been reduced. Bacteria have not disappeared as infectious agents, however, ... ...parasitologists believed this not to be the case. Instead, parasites were thought to evolve gradually toward reduced antagonism—having a less ... ...
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    Virulence
    the degree of pathogenicity of a given pathogen.
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    virulence
    The disease-evoking severity of a pathogen; numerically expressed as the ratio of the number of cases of overt infection to the total number infected, as determined by immunoassay. [L. virulentia, fr. virulentus, poisonous]
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