virulence
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Those could help researchers identify genes for virulence and other disease-related traits.
From Science Magazine
Although it acknowledged the hamster study, the WHO advisory group appeared to give greater credence to the recent epidemiological data on BA.2 virulence.
From Science Magazine
Whether any of those will affect virulence is unclear.
From Scientific American
The right still hates the Clintons — and Gore by extension — with a virulence that, if it came from the left, would be viewed as felonious.
From Salon
The CDC noted that the reduced lethality of omicron is likely due in part to increased immunity from vaccines and prior infection, but the "lower virulence" of the new variant is also partly responsible.
From Fox News
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