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Hearteningly, the attacks failed because the terrorists couldn't obtain or produce germs of sufficient virulence.
Although we suggest that anticapsular antibody is not primarily responsible for the age-specific decline in invasive pneumococcal disease, there is no question that the capsule is an important virulence factor that interacts with the innate and acquired immune system in a number of ways.
Yersinia pestis , the causative agent of bubonic plague, harbors a large virulence plasmid that is essential for pathogenicity.
Little is known about the identity and function of pXO2 ORFs beyond the virulence genes associated with the B. anthracis capsule ( dep, capACB, acpA ) [ 2 3 4 5 ] . The goal of this study was to determine if many of the novel pXO2 ORFs were unique to B. anthracis , or were conserved in other closely related Bacillus cereus and Bacillus thuringiensis isolates.
This mechanism of iron uptake may constitute an important virulence factor, which can help in establishing infection in the host [ 26 ] . The study of this virulence system may help in the better understanding of the bacterial pathogenesis especially in an opportunistic pathogen like Acinetobacter sp.