Virulence

"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.

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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
MeSH Number(s)	G06.930
Concept/Terms	Virulence Virulence Pathogenicity Pathogenicity

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Biological Sciences [G]
Microbiological Phenomena [G06]
Virulence [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.

Bar chart showing 158 publications over 29 distinct years, with a maximum of 11 publications in 2005

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1996	1	0	1
1998	0	2	2
2000	0	4	4
2001	1	2	3
2002	0	7	7
2003	0	2	2
2004	0	9	9
2005	0	11	11
2006	1	6	7
2007	1	9	10
2008	0	6	6
2009	0	10	10
2010	1	9	10
2011	1	7	8
2012	0	10	10
2013	0	10	10
2014	1	6	7
2015	0	3	3
2016	1	2	3
2017	0	4	4
2018	1	5	6
2019	0	3	3
2020	0	6	6
2021	1	4	5
2022	0	1	1
2023	0	2	2
2024	0	2	2
2025	0	2	2
2026	0	4	4

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Vasquez-Rifo A, Susorov D, Sholi EH, Demo G, Jami Y, Sha J, Wohlschlegel JA, Korostelev A, Ambros V. The Pseudomonas aeruginosa ribonuclease Ribocin cleaves eukaryotic ribosomes at helix 69 to inhibit host translation. PLoS Biol. 2026 May; 24(5):e3003790.

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Fleck RC, Gorodyna O, Zhou H, Bryant H, Gadjeva M, Shea AE. Emerging pathogens in urinary tract infections: virulence and phenotypic characterization of Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains. mSphere. 2026 Jun 30; 11(6):e0015126.

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Nguyen TVH, Vu ND, Nguyen VD, Than TT, Dang TN, Nguyen HT, Tran TCG, Nguyen HT, Nguyen PA, Cho KH, Hong SK, Ambagala A, Kim YH, Le VP. Pathobiological characterization and estimation of the basic reproduction number of a recombinant african swine fever virus in contact-exposed pigs in Vietnam. Vet Microbiol. 2026 May; 316:110961.

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Weerathunge P, Yazdani M, Sharma TK, Wong WKM, Joglekar MV, Hardikar AA, Rotello VM, Ramanathan R, Bansal V. Nanozyme Aptasensor Array for Predictive Sensing of Virulent and Antibiotic-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus strains. Small. 2026 Mar; 22(15):e12266.

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Wee D, Pandey M, Chen Y, Lorenzini PA, Chow EW, Wang Y, Singhal A, Oehlers SH. Primary tuberculous mycobacterial granulomas provide a niche for superinfecting Mycobacterium abscessus. Nat Commun. 2025 Nov 28; 16(1):10760.

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Ignatov D, Shanmuganathan V, Ahmed-Begrich R, Alagesan K, Hahnke K, Wang C, Krause K, Cornejo FA, Funke K, Erhardt M, Frese CK, Charpentier E. RNA-binding protein YebC enhances translation of proline-rich amino acid stretches in bacteria. Nat Commun. 2025 Jul 07; 16(1):6262.

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Zhou H, Negr?n O, Abbondante S, Marshall M, Jones B, Ong E, Chumbler N, Tunkey C, Dixon G, Lin H, Plante O, Pearlman E, Gadjeva M. Spatial transcriptomics identifies novel Pseudomonas aeruginosa virulence factors. Cell Genom. 2025 Mar 12; 5(3):100805.

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Mittal E, Prasad GVRK, Upadhyay S, Sadadiwala J, Olive AJ, Yang G, Sassetti CM, Philips JA. Mycobacterium tuberculosis virulence lipid PDIM inhibits autophagy in mice. Nat Microbiol. 2024 Nov; 9(11):2970-2984.

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Gonzalez X, Irazoqui JE. Distinct members of the Caenorhabditis elegans CeMbio reference microbiota exert cryptic virulence that is masked by host defense. Mol Microbiol. 2024 09; 122(3):387-402.

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Vargas R, Luna MJ, Freschi L, Marin M, Froom R, Murphy KC, Campbell EA, Ioerger TR, Sassetti CM, Farhat MR. Phase variation as a major mechanism of adaptation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2023 07 11; 120(28):e2301394120.

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