THE term 'Virulence' has sometimes in the past been regarded as an intrinsic property of an infecting agent ; that such a view is not entirely in accord with our knowledge of natural and ...

Q: How does understanding the evolution of virulence help us to manage infectious disease? A: For most of the last two centuries people have been using interventions to knock down infectious ...

Various bacterial virulence factors are associated with the development of such gastric diseases, and the characterization of these markers could aid medical prognosis, which could be extremely ...

An attenuated vaccine virus genetically engineered to carry the virulence mutations that the researchers identified caused paralysis in mice. “In polio, we know that viruses that are more ...

Q: How does understanding the evolution of virulence help us to manage infectious disease? A: For most of the last two centuries people have been using interventions to knock down infectious ...