virulome
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editEtymology
editNoun
editvirulome (plural virulomes)
- (microbiology) The set of genes that contribute to the virulence of a bacterium.
- 2015 July 11, “Using Whole Genome Analysis to Examine Recombination across Diverse Sequence Types of Staphylococcus aureus”, in PLOS ONE[1], :
- To further assess the virulome, blast score ratio (BSR) analysis was used as previously described to query known virulence genes (S2 Table) and their homologs across all S.