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What are the infectivity pathogenicity and virulence of disease?
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Attributes of an organism that promote pathogenicity are called?
Virulence factors
What are virulence factors?
Virulence is the degree of pathogenicity within a types of parasites. The factors of virulence are the colonization of a niche in the host, immunoevasion, immunosuppression, entry and exit of cells and obtaining nutrition from the host.
A microorganism's disease-producing power is called?
virulence
What are the virulence factors of Rocky Mountain spotted fever?
How does the rocky mountain spotted fever organism result in disease & what are the virulence factors?
What is the strength or disease-producing power of microorganisms called?
That is called as 'Pathogenicity' of the organism.
What are disease-producing microorganisms called?
They are usually just called organisms or bacteria, virus, pathogen, or parasites.
What does secondary dissemination mean?
In terms of Pathogenicity it means the spread of disease to other parts of body.
What is the difference between pathogenicity and virulence?
a pathogen is some that is called a micro orginism and in which it is a disease that no one can feel the symptom a parasite is some thing like a bug or a flea that feeds on you and the symptoms are felt often but not as much a pathogen is some that is called a micro orginism and in which it is a disease that no one can feel the symptom a parasite is some thing like a bug or a flea that feeds on you and the symptoms are felt often but not as much a pathogen is some that is called a micro orginism and in which it is a disease that no one can feel the symptom a parasite is some thing like a bug or a flea that feeds on you and the symptoms are felt often but not as much
What makes coagulase important for a pathogen?
There is some controversy about whether coagulase is a virulence factor, but one way coagulase contributes to pathogenicity is that it binds prothrombin to form staphylothrombin, which then cleaves fibrinogen to form fibrin clots in which the bacteria can live and avoid phagocytosis by neutrophils.
What is the medical term meaning ability of an organism to cause disease?
Pathogenicity is the ability of an organism to cause disease.
What do the 'H' and 'N' stand for in influenza viruses?
hemaglutinin and neuraminidase, two surface glycoproteins of influenza that contribute the the virulence of the disease...
What does not contribute to the virulence of a pathogen?
There are infinitely many things that do not contribute to the virulence of a pathogen. Elvis does not contribute to the virulence of a pathogen.
