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pathogenicity

[ path-oh-juh-nis-i-tee ]

noun

  1. the disease-producing capacity of a pathogen.


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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of pathogenicity1

First recorded in 1895–1900; pathogenic + -ity
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Much to my chagrin, I learned there is a link between antibiotic resistance and pathogenicity, meaning that the C. acnes strains that are antibiotic-resistant are the same strains causing aggressive breakouts.

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Dr Peck also said that multiple transfers into F. xylarioides populations matched different parts of the Fusarium oxysporum mobile pathogenicity chromosome and were enriched in effector genes and transposons.

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The quail studies only involve flu viruses with so-called low pathogenicity.

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They resistance profiled the compound against influenza viruses and mapped possible routes of viral escape, addressing specifically whether resistance affects viral pathogenicity and ability to transmit.

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Transmission was mainly between men who had sex with men, a population group with many HIV-infected individuals, who are particularly susceptible to monkeypox virus infection and pathogenicity.

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