Sentence examples for become virulent from inspiring English sources
In fact, many bacteria that cause disease, like those that cause plague, meningitis, tetanus or cholera have only become virulent after they acquired virulence genes [ 5- 8], highlighting the impact of horizontal gene transfer on human health [ 9].
"Unless today's principle of constitutional law is cabined, it can become virulent, running like a computer virus through the halls of government," Breyer warned.
The idea is that bacteria attacking the plant would become virulent quickly, when there are still few enough of them to be defeated by the plant's defenses.
Most of these viruses are harmless in their natural hosts, though they may become virulent (causing symptoms almost identical to AIDS) if introduced into other species of monkey.
Two-thirds of the deaths were caused by a bacterium, Clostridium difficile, which people often contract in hospitals and nursing homes, and which has become virulent and resistant to treatment.
Bacterial infections are commonly caused by pneumococci, staphylococci, and streptococci, all of which are often commensals (that is, organisms living harmlessly on their hosts) in the upper respiratory tract but that can become virulent and cause serious conditions, such as pneumonia, septicemia (blood poisoning), and meningitis.
They're preparing for an attack from a human population decimated by the plague-like disease that became virulent at the end of 2011's Rise of the Planet of the Apes.
This problem becomes virulent in modernity where the form of life is no longer something unproblematically present.
The prevalence of multiple antibiotic resistant bacteria among pathogens and by-standers (normally not pathogenic but becomes virulent under immunosuppressive conditions) poses a severe threat to public health worldwide.
Napoleon got the virus of romantic nationalism very early, in its first Corsican appearance, before it became virulent--at a time when it was attached to the universalist Enlightenment love of liberty rather than to the pursuit of romantic identity..
In Australian rabbits, myxomatosis initially caused a case fatality rate of ~99.9%, quickly evolved to intermediate levels of virulence [ 47], and later become more virulent [ 48].
