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Definitions of virulence in various dictionaries:
noun - extreme harmfulness (as the capacity of a microorganism to cause disease)
noun - extreme hostility
VIRULENCE - Virulence is a pathogen's or microbe's ability to infect or damage a host. In the context of gene for gene systems, often in plants, virulence refers...
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| Quality of being highly infective |
| Extreme hostility or harmfulness |
| Little boy keeping the law, a lethal quality |
| Acrimony from Van Gogh, familiarly taking on authority |
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Virulence is a pathogen's or microbe's ability to infect or damage a host. * In the context of gene for gene systems, often in plants, virulence refers to a pathogen's ability to infect a resistant host. In most other contexts, especially in animal systems, virulence refers to the degree of damage caused by a microbe to its host. The pathogenicity of an organism - its ability to cause disease - is determined by its virulence factors. The noun virulence derives from the adjective virulent. Virulent can describe either disease severity or a pathogen's infectivity. The word virulent derives from the Latin word virulentus, meaning "a poisoned wound" or "full of poison."In an ecological context, virulence can be defined as the host's parasite-induced loss of fitness. Virulence can be understood in terms of proximate causesthose specific traits of the pathogen that help make the host illand ultimate causesthe evolutionary pressures that lead to virulent traits occurring in a pathogen strain. |