Virulent refers to pathogens, particularly viruses or bacteria, that can cause severe disease or harm to their host, often resulting in significant symptoms and high transmission rates. In contrast, avirulent pathogens are less harmful or non-pathogenic; they may exist without causing disease or may only lead to mild symptoms. This distinction is crucial in understanding disease severity and the immune response elicited by different pathogens.
Virulent refers to pathogens that are capable of causing disease and often have mechanisms that enhance their ability to infect and harm the host. In contrast, avirulent refers to pathogens that do not cause disease or are less capable of doing so, often due to a lack of harmful traits or factors that allow them to evade the host's immune response. Essentially, virulent strains are harmful, while avirulent strains are benign or less harmful.
H37Rv and H37Ra are both strains of M. tuberculosis representing virulent (Rv) and avirulent (Ra) strains.
An avirulent pathogen is a pathogen that is unable to cause disease in its host. This may be due to mutations that have reduced its ability to infect or harm the host, making it less pathogenic compared to a virulent pathogen.
Ostwald T. Avery's experiment was an extension of the works of Griffith's. Griffith's experiment using virulent and avirulent Streptococcus pneumoniae (which had different colony characteristics) proved that it was possible for the heat killed virulent Streptococcus pneumoniae to pass on the genetic information for formation of smooth colonies to avirulent strains. Avery, Mc Leod and Mc Carty conclusively found out that the genetic material responsible for transfer of characteristics between the strains was DNA. This was achieved by incubating the cell lysate of virulent Streptococcus with proteases, RNAses and DNAses separately before mixing it with avirulent strains. It was found that only when the lysate was incubated with DNAses did the transfer of smooth colony formation characteristic from the virulent strain to the avirulent strain fail to occur.
A virulent virus is a virus that has severe symptoms and is usually a dangerous disease. A temperate virus is a less violent sickness that may show little to no symptoms.
phages of virulent.
The antonyms of virulent: gentle; kind; nice; harmless; healthy; nonpoisonous
he came down with a virulent type of disease
Virulent means very posinous or dangerous.
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this bacteria is virulent strain
The judge had a virulent criticism after his affair with the intern.