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US
/ˈvɪɹəɫəns/
]
[ UK /vˈɪɹələns/ ]
[ UK /vˈɪɹələns/ ]
NOUN
-
extreme hostility
the virulence of the malicious old man -
extreme harmfulness (as the capacity of a microorganism to cause disease)
the virulence of the plague
How To Use virulence In A Sentence
- better sanitation in Haiti, to "minimise the spread of the new south Asian strain, and the virulence genes it carries, beyond the shores of this Caribbean island".
- Numerous virulence genes in pathogenic bacteria and viruses have been shown to be under positive selection.
- the virulence of the plague
- Virulence The relative pathogenicity of an organism; its ability to cause disease.
- A putative virulence region spanning an 80-kb region of pAPEC-1 possesses four iron acquisition systems (iutA iucABCD, sitABCD, iroBCDN, and temperature-sensitive hemagglutinin tsh), a colicin V operon, increasing serum sensitivity iss, ompT, hlyF, and etsABC. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
- The virulence of the replies he received from some was shocking even to me. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
- The virulence of the replies he received from some was shocking even to me. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
- The virulence of sectarianism here remains a major threat to the newly devolved institutions.
- Virulence phenotypes of parental lines and individual F2 progeny used for bulked-segregant analysis. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
- And she spoke with more real virulence than that kind of upbraiding generally exhibits. Uncle Silas