virulence
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"The study also tells us how albumin works on nullifying critical virulence factors including toxins and other fungal proteins involved in causing tissue damage and in aggressively invading human organs," explained Dr. Ibrahim.
From Science Daily • Mar. 3, 2026
“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
This could allow them to acquire genes from frozen pathogens that confer antimicrobial resistance or greater virulence.
From Salon • Apr. 24, 2025
The team of phage scientists said they will continue looking for similar instances of phages dampening the virulence of pathogenic bacteria.
From Science Daily • Apr. 15, 2024
When the typhus fever had fulfilled its mission of devastation at Lowood, it gradually disappeared from thence; but not till its virulence and the number of its victims had drawn public attention on the school.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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