English edit

Etymology edit

virulence +‎ -ome.

Noun edit

virulome (plural virulomes)

  1. (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], →DOI:
      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.