pathogenicity
Noun
Meaning
pathogenicity (countable and uncountable, plural pathogenicities)
The quality or state of causing, originating or producing disease.
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Pathogenesis V. cholerae pathogenicity genes code for proteins directly or indirectly involved in the virulence of the bacteria.
The genes for toxin coregulated pilus are coded by the VPI pathogenicity island (VPI).
The innate immune response to LPS, however, is not synonymous with pathogenicity, or the ability to cause disease.
Recent research has suggested that there is no evidence of pathogenicity of Polymorphus spp. to intermediate crab hosts.
The presence of several pathogenicity islands in the genome of different serovars has lent credence to this theory.
Together, these plasmids, and a pathogenicity island called HPI, encode several proteins that cause the pathogenesis, for which Y. pestis is famous.