 Virulence
"Virulence" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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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.
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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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| 1996 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 1997 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1998 | 0 | 4 | 4 | | 1999 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2000 | 0 | 4 | 4 | | 2001 | 0 | 4 | 4 | | 2002 | 0 | 9 | 9 | | 2003 | 1 | 5 | 6 | | 2004 | 0 | 8 | 8 | | 2005 | 0 | 4 | 4 | | 2006 | 0 | 4 | 4 | | 2007 | 3 | 4 | 7 | | 2008 | 0 | 8 | 8 | | 2009 | 0 | 5 | 5 | | 2010 | 0 | 7 | 7 | | 2011 | 1 | 11 | 12 | | 2012 | 1 | 8 | 9 | | 2013 | 0 | 9 | 9 | | 2014 | 0 | 9 | 9 | | 2015 | 0 | 8 | 8 | | 2016 | 3 | 5 | 8 | | 2017 | 0 | 11 | 11 | | 2018 | 1 | 7 | 8 | | 2019 | 1 | 10 | 11 | | 2020 | 1 | 11 | 12 | | 2021 | 2 | 5 | 7 | | 2022 | 0 | 6 | 6 | | 2023 | 0 | 7 | 7 | | 2024 | 0 | 7 | 7 | | 2025 | 0 | 6 | 6 | | 2026 | 0 | 14 | 14 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Virulence" by people in Profiles.
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Enroth TJ, Lee E, Eisenmesser EZ, Horswill AR. Staphylococcus aureus wall teichoic acid structure dictates virulence potential and resistance to host defenses. Sci Adv. 2026 Oct 23; 12(43):eaef7070.
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Raineri EJM, Boulouis C, Mouchtaridi E, Nilsén V, Cai C, Kammann T, Tabusse J, Sekine T, Wild N, Constantz C, White E, Müller TR, Marchalot A, Ferreira S, Kaushal J, Mily A, Franklin M, Bonaiti E, Eichhorn M-L, Bassett J, Stamper C, Mak JYW, Fairlie DP, Tibbitt C, Norrby-Teglund A, Marquardt N, Mjösberg J, Jorns C, Driving J, Leeansyah E, Buggert M, Sandberg JK. MAIT cell responses to Staphylococcus aureus and sensitivity to HlgAB toxin are modulated by activation and tissue-dependent virulence effects. mBio. 2026 Oct 14; 17(10):e0066326.
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Kim JS, Uppalapati S, Margolis A, McClelland M, Elajaili H, Nozik E, Liu L, Vazquez-Torres A. Salmonella uses sulfate reductases with unique catalytic activity to promote gut colonization in mice. Nat Microbiol. 2026 Sep; 11(9):2619-2633.
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Vázquez-Torres A. Host-microbiota-pathogen interactions drive Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium pathogenesis. Nat Rev Microbiol. 2026 Nov; 24(11):804-820.
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Williamson KS, Franklin MJ. Role of starvation survival response mechanisms on ribosome integrity, antibiotic tolerances, and virulence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms. NPJ Biofilms Microbiomes. 2026 Jul 08; 12(1).
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Alves J, Crestani C, Marroquin SM, Johnston ABE, Ring N, Bowen C, Reglinski M, Doran KS, Zadoks RN, Lynskey NN. Acquisition of a novel restriction modification system regulates genetic flux and gene expression in the hypervirulent and globally disseminated CC17 lineage of group B Streptococcus. Nucleic Acids Res. 2026 Jul 03; 54(13).
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Keogh RA, Job AM, Joyce LR, Akbari MS, Nguyen A, Kavanaugh JS, Horswill AR, Doran KS. The diabetic wound microenvironment drives emergence and maintenance of CovRS variants in group B Streptococcus. Infect Immun. 2026 Jul 14; 94(7):e0009926.
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Detweiler CS, Alav I. How resistance-nodulation-division (RND) efflux pumps contribute to virulence. PLoS Pathog. 2026 May; 22(5):e1014228.
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Cohen S, Crossen AJ, Jensen O, Neely MN, Le Doare K, Nobbs AH, Ost KS, Doran KS. A fungal pathobiont promotes Streptococcus vaginal persistence and pathogenesis through physical and metabolic interactions. Cell Host Microbe. 2026 Jun 10; 34(6):1118-1134.e7.
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Shapiro BL, Jaiswal P, Funkhouser-Jones LJ, Roy S, Van Gundy TJ, Bono JM, Lybecker MC, Garcia BL, Hyde JA, Skare JT. The Borreliella burgdorferi BosR-associated small non-coding RNA BasA regulates virulence. Infect Immun. 2026 Apr 15; 94(4):e0002626.
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