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Virulence

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Virulence
The ability of any agent of infection to produce disease. The virulence of a microorganism (such as a bacterium or virus) is a measure of the severity of the disease it is capable of causing. The adjective virulent implies extremely noxious, damaging, deleterious, disease-causing (pathogenic). Marked by a rapid, severe, and malignant course. Poisonous, venomous. The word “virulence” comes from the Latin “virulentia” from “virus” meaning a slimy liquid, particularly one that is foul and poisonous.
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The disease-evoking severity of a pathogen; numerically expressed as the ratio of the number of cases of overt infection to the total number infected, as determined by immunoassay. [L. virulentia, fr. virulentus, poisonous]

Medical dictionary. 2011.

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