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virulome

virulome noun: the set of genes that contribute to the virulence of a bacterium.

Noun

virulome (plural virulomes)

  1. The set of genes that contribute to the virulence of a bacterium.
    • 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.2015 July 11, “Using Whole Genome Analysis to Examine Recombination across Diverse Sequence Types of Staphylococcus aureus”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Forms of virulome

pluralvirulomes

Origin of virulome

From virulence + -ome.

Words formed from virulome

Questions about virulome

What does virulome mean?
Virulome means the set of genes that contribute to the virulence of a bacterium.
What part of speech is virulome?
Virulome is a noun.
What is the plural of virulome?
The plural of virulome is virulomes.

Words near virulome in the dictionary

  1. virulented
  2. virulently
  3. virulentness
  4. viruliferous
  5. viruliferousness
  6. virulome
  7. virulomes
  8. virulotype
  9. virulotyped
  10. virulotypes
  11. virulotyping

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