GEN COMBO LOOSELEAF MICROBIOLOGY:A SYSTEMS APPROACH; CONNECT ACCESS CARD
GEN COMBO LOOSELEAF MICROBIOLOGY:A SYSTEMS APPROACH; CONNECT ACCESS CARD
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Author: Marjorie Kelly Cowan Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Any structure or characteristic of microbe that contributes to the preceding activities is known as a virulence factor.

Microorganisms that cause disease are termed as pathogens or the infectious causative agents. When a pathogen invades the tissue of an individual it will lead to create infections. Infectious agent which has the ability to cause disease is called pathogenicity, and the rate to which an infectious agent is pathogenic is termed as virulence.

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