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
"These sugars are central to bacterial virulence, but they've been very hard to study," he said.
From Science Daily
The researchers plan to continue exploring how specific virulence factors identified in the study influence disease progression.
From Science Daily
This could allow them to acquire genes from frozen pathogens that confer antimicrobial resistance or greater virulence.
From Salon
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
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