"Virulence" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The degree of pathogenicity within a group or species of microorganisms or viruses as indicated by case fatality rates and/or the ability of the organism to invade the tissues of the host. The pathogenic capacity of an organism is determined by its VIRULENCE FACTORS.
| Descriptor ID |
D014774
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G06.930
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Virulence" by people in this website by year, and whether "Virulence" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1995 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1996 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1997 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1998 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 1999 | 1 | 7 | 8 |
| 2000 | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| 2001 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 2002 | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| 2003 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 2004 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 2005 | 1 | 9 | 10 |
| 2006 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 2007 | 0 | 8 | 8 |
| 2008 | 0 | 13 | 13 |
| 2009 | 1 | 11 | 12 |
| 2010 | 1 | 6 | 7 |
| 2011 | 0 | 9 | 9 |
| 2012 | 0 | 8 | 8 |
| 2013 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2014 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 2015 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 2016 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2017 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2018 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 2019 | 1 | 8 | 9 |
| 2020 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2022 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2023 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2024 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Virulence" by people in Profiles.
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Protection against Clostridioides difficile disease by a naturally avirulent strain. Cell Host Microbe. 2025 Jan 08; 33(1):59-70.e4.
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PcdA promotes orthogonal division plane selection in Staphylococcus aureus. Nat Microbiol. 2024 Nov; 9(11):2997-3012.
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Rapid design of bacteriophage cocktails to suppress the burden and virulence of gut-resident carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae. Cell Host Microbe. 2024 Nov 13; 32(11):1988-2003.e8.
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Genotypic diversity, virulence, and molecular genetic tools in Histoplasma. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev. 2024 Jun 27; 88(2):e0007623.
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Microbial transmission in the social microbiome and host health and disease. Cell. 2024 01 04; 187(1):17-43.
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Reservoir host immunology and life history shape virulence evolution in zoonotic viruses. PLoS Biol. 2023 09; 21(9):e3002268.
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Virulence and genomic diversity among clinical isolates of ST1 (BI/NAP1/027) Clostridioides difficile. Cell Rep. 2023 08 29; 42(8):112861.
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Structure-based pathogenicity relationship identifier for predicting effects of single missense variants and discovery of higher-order cancer susceptibility clusters of mutations. Brief Bioinform. 2023 07 20; 24(4).
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Ovarian cancer pathology characteristics as predictors of variant pathogenicity in BRCA1 and BRCA2. Br J Cancer. 2023 06; 128(12):2283-2294.
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Response to Hypoxia and the Ensuing Dysregulation of Inflammation Impacts Mycobacterium tuberculosis Pathogenicity. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2022 07 01; 206(1):94-104.