Sentence examples for least virulent from inspiring English sources

But in vaccinated birds, the opposite was true: Those infected with the most virulent strains shed more virus than birds infected with the least virulent strain.

Western European strains are the least virulent with case fatality rates lower than 2%.

The highest RANTES spleen levels at 48 h were measured for mice infected with the least virulent isolates.

Type 1 is the least virulent of the Sabin strains, consistent with a large number of infections prior to identification of the index case.

Overall, the results in Table 2 show that infection with the most virulent strains (Table 1) generated more lesions, more host infiltrate and greater quantities of fungal material, viable or not, than infection with the least virulent strains.

Two of the least virulent strains, HUN96 and pmr1Δ (Table 1) showed a decrease in viable kidney burdens between 24 and 48 h (Fig. 2a), while the highest burdens at 48 h were for AM2003-020, J951361, IHEM16614 and SC5314 (Fig. 2a), which were 4 of the 5 most virulent strains in a previous study (Table 1).

This new virus has exposed at least one virulent pundit.

The T. cruzi experimental hybrid progeny clones were subtetraploid products of fusion and genome erosion, and at least as virulent as the parental clones.

Other color mutants such as arp2 and abr1 were at least as virulent as the wild type strain B5233.

The XDR-TB strain is considered to be at least as virulent as any other TB strain, with high mortality rates observed.

We assumed in our analyses that the strain used in the mailings was at least as virulent as the strain reported in the outbreak of inhalation anthrax at the Manchester mill (15 ).