Sentence examples for a range of virulence from inspiring English sources

It produces a range of virulence factors that may cause unpleasant disease in humans when present in food or the gastrointestinal tract and it is one of the major food-borne pathogenic bacteria, although in most cases disease is mild and of short duration.

The pathogen deploys a range of virulence determinants to enhance its competitive advantages against its host.

It is likely that HCM3A evolved independently from methicillin-sensitive ST59 S. aureus, which acquired SCCmec and a range of virulence MGE.

In this model, indeed, it is assumed that there is a range of virulence for which the cost of an increased virulence, in terms of reduced opportunities of contact between the infected host and other individuals, outweighs the benefits, in terms of greater contagiousness of the pathogen.

Our study confirmed that Prevotella intermedia ZT possessed a range of virulence factors involved in adhesion, proteolysis, iron uptake etc.

N. meningitidis express a range of virulence factors including capsular polysaccharide, lipopolysaccharide and a number of surface-expressed adhesive proteins.

The presence of a range of virulence-associated genes involved in both avian systemic disease and enteritis in mammals was also determined by PCR (virulotyping).

Unlike other gram-negative pathogens, diphtheria, tetanus or Hepatitis B virus, the pathogenesis of B.p is much more complex because a range of different virulence determinants have been implicated [8].

Previous studies have shown that many IBD isolates carry a range of ExPEC-associated virulence determinants.

Streptococcus pneumoniae expresses a range of protein virulence factors associated with colonization of mucosal surfaces and subsequent tissue invasion [ 3].

The indeterminacy poses little problem for the invasion threshold perspective, however: the invasion threshold perspective merely specifies a range of possible virulence levels that can potentially invade.