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pathogenicity [‚path·ə·jə′nis·əd·ē] (medicine) The ability of an organism to enter a host and cause disease. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Repeated stool samples from the cat grew a strain of EHEC O145:H--that showed the identical pathogenicity gene pattern as the girl's isolate. This approach can provide supportive data to address the question of pathogenicity, although bacteria in low numbers can easily be missed during the microscopic examination. By inoculating mice with engineered viruses that carried just one or the other of the two genes, Kawaoka's team found that the hemagglutinin gene alone was enough to increase the virus' pathogenicity. |
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