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Example sentences for: virulence

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If E. coli can acquire virulence genes from archaea, then potentially any organism is a reservoir of virulence genes for pathogens.
Hearteningly, the attacks failed because the terrorists couldn't obtain or produce germs of sufficient virulence.
This subset of genes - although most have not been directly identified as virulence genes - are more likely to be virulence-associated.
But even Chatterbox was taken aback at the virulence of some of Nixon's comments on the new tapes--which, sadly, are not available either in audio or in transcript form on the Web.
For some reason, if I have cancer , its virulence is somehow diminished if I call it the big C; a myocardial infarction seems less life-threatening than a heart attack . Work I have done on synonym dictionaries confirms that English has more equivalents, at various levels of usage, for insane than for any other concept or word in the language.