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pathogenicity

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pathogenicity [‚path·ə·jə′nis·əd·ē]
(medicine)
The ability of an organism to enter a host and cause disease.


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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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