Encyclopedia results for Virulence

1. Virulence
   dablink For the album by Only Crime, see Virulence album unreferenced article date November 2007 Virulence ... of a microbe to cause disease . The word virulent , which is the adjective for virulence, derives ..
   
   
   
2. Virulence factor
   Virulence factors are molecules produced by a pathogen that specifically influence their host s function ..., but are not considered virulence factors since they lack specific function to directly influence ..
   
   
   
3. Optimal virulence
   Optimal virulence is a concept relating to the ecology of hosts and parasite s. One definition of virulence ... time, virulence moderated and parasitic relationships evolved toward symbiosis. This view has ..
   
   
   
4. Virulence (album)
   Infobox Album See Wikipedia WikiProject Albums Name Virulence Type Studio album Artist Only Crime Cover ... Last album To the Nines br 2004 This album Virulence br 2007 Next album Virulence is the second full ..
   
   
   
5. Virulence-related outer membrane protein family
   Pfam box Symbol Ail Lom Name Virulence related OMP image 1qj8 opm.gif width 150 caption Pfam PF06316 ... A 24 171 PDB3 1q9g A 24 171 PDB3 1qj8 A 24 171 Virulence related outer membrane proteins are expressed ..
   
   
   
6. M protein
   disambig A virulence factor of the bacterium Streptococcus pyogenes . Another name for Paraprotein paraprotein , an abnormal protein in the urine or blood. ..
   
   
   
7. Clumping factor A
   Clumping factor A , or ClfA , is a virulence factor from Staphylococcus aureus S. aureus that binds to fibrinogen . It is responsible for the clumping of blood plasma observed when adding S. aureus to human ..
   
   
   
8. Pertactin
   Pertactin PRN is a highly immunogenic Virulence virulence factor of Bordetella pertussis , a bacterium that causes pertussis . Specifically, it is an outer membrane protein that promotes Cell adhesion ..
   
   
   
9. Molecular Koch's postulates
   . Genes that satisfy molecular Koch s postulates are often referred to as virulence factors ... inactivation of the gene s associated with the suspected virulence trait should lead to a measurable ..
   
   
   
10. Intimin
    Intimin is a virulence factor adhesin of EPEC e.g. E. coli O127 H6 and EHEC e.g. E. coli O157 H7 E. coli strains. It is an attaching and effacing A E protein which with other virulence factors is responsible ..
    
    
    
11. Phenol-soluble modulin
    protein, product of the psm alpha gene cluster , was associated with the enhanced virulence enhanced .... ref R Wang et al. Identification of novel cytolytic peptides as key virulence determinants of community ..
    
    
    
12. Aerobactin
    Virulence Factor Genes among Strains of Escherichia coli Causing Urosepsis Association with Patient Characteristics. Infection And Immunity . 1988 56 2 405 412 ref It is a virulence factor enabling ..
    
    
    
13. Parasite load
    Parasite load is a measure of the number and virulence of the parasite s that an organism has. In evolutionary biology , parasite load has important implications for sexual selection and the evolution ..
    
    
    
14. Infectivity
    In epidemiology , infectivity refers to the ability of a pathogen to establish an infection. It should be contrasted with virulence , which refers to the damage done by the pathogen once the infection ...
    
    
    
15. Ribotyping
    cloned probes randomly cloned probes or probes derived from a specific coding sequence such as that of a virulence ..
    
    
    
16. PVL
    Panton Valentine leukocidin , a factor in bacterial virulence The paleontological collection of the FundaciĆ ..
    
    
    
17. Lipoarabinomannan
    Lipoarabinomannan ,also called LAM , is a glycolipid , and a virulence factor associated with Mycobacterium tuberculosis , the bacteria responsible for tuberculosis . Its primary function is to inactivate ..
    
    
    
18. CFP-10
    genome and play a key role in the virulence of the infection. ref PMID 16689931 ref References references ..
    
    
    
19. Alchemy Records (U.S.)
    Virulence band Virulence If This Isn t a Dream... ALCHEMY 003 LP 1989 Guillotine band Guillotine ..
    
    
    
20. Lysogen
    genes are active during lysogeny, examples of which include phage encoded tRNA and virulence genes ..
    
    
    
21. Pathogenicity
    Pathogenicity is the ability of an organism, a pathogen , to produce an infectious disease in another organism. It is often used interchangeably with the term virulence , although some authors prefer ...
    
    
    
22. Twin-arginine translocation (Tat) pathway
    on a functioning Tat pathway for full virulence in infection models. In addition, a number of exported virulence factors have been shown to rely on the Tat pathway. One such category of virulence ..
    
    
    
23. Attenuated virus
    is reducing the virulence of a virus , whilst keeping it viable or live , for the purpose of creating ... this mutant will normally have a lower virulence in the original host, as the rest of the genetic ..
    
    
    
24. Signature tagged mutagenesis
    genes in a pathogen are involved in virulence in its host, so that better medical treatments can ... may use STM to discover which genes are critical to a pathogen s virulence by injecting a pool of different ..
    
    
    
25. Listeriolysin O
    for causing listeriosis . The Exotoxin toxin may be considered a virulence factor , since it is crucial for the virulence of L. monocytogenes . ref cite journal author Cossart P title The listeriolysin ..