Sentence examples for general virulence from inspiring English sources

In general, virulence is the degree of toxicity or the injury-producing potential of a microorganism.

Obviously, there are many virulence factors (e.g., Shiga toxin[14] and intimin[15]) or pathogenicity islands (PAIs) identified to be involved in the general virulence of EHEC[16].

It was already reported that MurNAc residues of the PG were O-acetylated only in pathogenic, lysozyme-resistant staphylococci allowing OatA to be regarded as a general virulence factor in S. aureus [47].

While most of these genes are considered "general" virulence factors, it is likely that some of them may play an unique role in the pathogenesis of GBS infection in susceptible newborns.

Although the presence of similar deletions in other virulent species eliminates the possibility of association of the deletion to lack of general virulence, it is possible that the deletion may be associated with species specific (B. abortus) host preference, which needs to be tested in mutation experiments.

This translocation requires the early secretory antigenic target 6 system 1 ESX-1, a type VII secretion system involved in general virulence of pathogenic mycobacterial species.

In general, all virulence profiles identified on the triticale cultivars were highly aggressive.

A total of 28 chapters cover the general properties, virulence factors, cell biology, immunity, genomics, diseases, and laboratory aspects of Candida species, with particular emphasis on its most prominent member, Candida albicans.

Therefore, it is possible the recent divergence of serum-resistant M. catarrhalis, estimated at 5 million years ago, may have limited the opportunity to acquire distributed genes in general and virulence-specific factors in particular [ 16].

Comparison of pathogens collected from previous generations indicated a general decrease in virulence over time, either suggesting evolution toward optimal virulence or perhaps that the beetle hosts were keeping ahead in terms of coevolved defences.

These findings indicate the need to analyse the interaction among different genotypes of host and parasite when testing the general validity of virulence evolution hypotheses.