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单词 virulence
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virulence
noun[U]
uk
/ˈvɪr.ə.ləns/us
/ˈvɪr.jə.ləns/
thedangerandspeedofspreadingof adisease:
（疾病的）致命性，严重性
The virulence of thediseaseiscausinggreatconcerninmedicalcircles.这种病的高致命性已经引起了医学界的极大关注。
formal
verystrongfeelingsofhatingoropposingsomething or someone:
恶毒；狠毒
We arewitnessingracismof a virulence that we haven'tseeninEuropesince the 1940s.我们正在亲眼目睹欧洲自20世纪40年代以来从未出现过的恶毒的种族主义。
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(Definition ofvirulencefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofvirulence

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Tuberculosis and typhus were not difficult to diagnose and there is no evidence that their autonomousvirulencehad declined.
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The usual argument is that cooperation consists in a reduction ofvirulence; in other words, avirulence is a cooperative restraint in host exploitation.
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Rather,virulencemay also derive from toxin-mediated alteration of host immune responses prior to sepsis and toxaemia.
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Population studies demonstrate that the small amount of variation defines three clonal lineages where phenotypes such asvirulenceare associated with a single lineage.
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The ability to endocytose has been correlated with thevirulenceof the organism.
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Blood from mice which developed infections was passaged repeatedly through mice and then rats at 3 day intervals to increasevirulence, before cloning in mice.
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The diversity among clusters may correspond to presence of thesevirulencefactors.
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The ability of meningococcal strains to cause invasive disease and their subsequentvirulenceare variable.
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In a warmer climate, the agent might not be able to withstand the environmental changes, resulting in the decay of itsvirulence.
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Genes coding for metabolic functions orvirulencefactors are the main targets for producing safe vaccine strains.
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Specificvirulencedeterminants that are required by strains to cause invasive diseases are unknown.
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Alternatively, while speculative, it is possible that all these strains are derived from the seventh-pandemic strain by the absence or loss ofvirulencegenes.
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Othervirulencefactors include the ability to cause attaching-and-effacing lesions in the intestine and plasmid encoded haemolysins.
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All strains possessed the toxin genes and the othervirulencefactors investigated.
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The aim, therefore, was to determine if additional therapeutic antibiotic use was associated with changes invirulencegene prevalence.
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