virulence
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“The Saudis understood that their dispute with the Emiratis had crossed into an anti-Israel posture of increasing virulence, that it was creating serious problems for them in Washington,” Dubowitz said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 2, 2026
The researchers plan to continue exploring how specific virulence factors identified in the study influence disease progression.
From Science Daily • Jan. 20, 2026
This could allow them to acquire genes from frozen pathogens that confer antimicrobial resistance or greater virulence.
From Salon • Apr. 24, 2025
They compared the genomes of EF-responsive and non-responsive strains and found that, in addition to iron acquisition genes, responsive strains had genes associated with virulence and capsule production specifically.
From Science Daily • Dec. 2, 2024
Like Griffith, Avery observed that the smooth-coated bacteria, once transformed, retained their virulence generation upon generation.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
