 Virulence Factors
"Virulence Factors" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Those components of an organism that determine its capacity to cause disease but are not required for its viability per se. Two classes have been characterized: TOXINS, BIOLOGICAL and surface adhesion molecules that effect the ability of the microorganism to invade and colonize a host. (From Davis et al., Microbiology, 4th ed. p486)
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D037521
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D23.946.896
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| Concept/Terms |
Virulence Factors- Virulence Factors
- Factors, Virulence
- Pathogenicity Factors
- Factors, Pathogenicity
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| 1995 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2000 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2005 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2006 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2007 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2008 | 5 | 1 | 6 | | 2009 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2010 | 5 | 6 | 11 | | 2011 | 4 | 3 | 7 | | 2012 | 2 | 2 | 4 | | 2013 | 6 | 6 | 12 | | 2014 | 10 | 1 | 11 | | 2015 | 5 | 3 | 8 | | 2016 | 5 | 2 | 7 | | 2017 | 4 | 5 | 9 | | 2018 | 4 | 1 | 5 | | 2019 | 4 | 3 | 7 | | 2020 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2021 | 2 | 6 | 8 | | 2022 | 1 | 8 | 9 | | 2024 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2025 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Virulence Factors" by people in Profiles.
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Lurie-Weinberger MN, Cohen A, Kon H, Kastel O, Keren-Paz A, Schwartz D, Lellouche J, Nutman A, Frenk S, Schechner V, Temkin E, Friberg LE, Daikos GL, Skiada A, Durante-Mangoni E, Yahav D, Leibovici L, Dickstein Y, Dishon Benattar Y, Paul M, Carmeli Y. Virulence factors are preserved within carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii clades. Virulence. 2025 Dec; 16(1):2542489.
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Raab JE, Harju TB, Toperzer JD, Duncan-Lowey JK, Thomas CI, Darehshouri A, Goldberg MB, Russo BC. A translocation-competent pore is required for Shigella flexneri to escape from the double membrane vacuole during intercellular spread. mBio. 2025 Sep 10; 16(9):e0167425.
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Enroth TJ, Severn MM, Costa FG, Bovee AR, Wilkening RV, Nguyen DT, Langou?t-Astri? C, Horswill AR. Global changes in Staphylococcus aureus virulence and metabolism during colonization of healthy skin. Infect Immun. 2025 04 08; 93(4):e0002825.
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Akbari MS, Joyce LR, Spencer BL, Brady A, McIver KS, Doran KS. Identification of glyoxalase A in group B Streptococcus and its contribution to methylglyoxal tolerance and virulence. Infect Immun. 2025 04 08; 93(4):e0054024.
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Kaplan JB, Horswill AR. Micrococcal nuclease regulates biofilm formation and dispersal in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus USA300. mSphere. 2024 May 29; 9(5):e0012624.
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Costa FG, Mills KB, Crosby HA, Horswill AR. The Staphylococcus aureus regulatory program in a human skin-like environment. mBio. 2024 May 08; 15(5):e0045324.
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Azizan A, Alfaro AC, Jaramillo D, Venter L, Young T, Frost E, Lee K, Van Nguyen T, Kitundu E, Archer SDJ, Ericson JA, Foxwell J, Quinn O, Ragg NLC. Pathogenicity and virulence of bacterial strains associated with summer mortality in marine mussels (Perna canaliculus). FEMS Microbiol Ecol. 2022 Dec 10; 98(12).
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Redzic JS, Rahkola J, Tran N, Holyoak T, Lee E, Mart?n-Galiano AJ, Meyer N, Zheng H, Eisenmesser E. A substrate-induced gating mechanism is conserved among Gram-positive IgA1 metalloproteases. Commun Biol. 2022 11 07; 5(1):1190.
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Joyce LR, Youngblom MA, Cormaty H, Gartstein E, Barber KE, Akins RL, Pepperell CS, Palmer KL. Comparative Genomics of Streptococcus oralis Identifies Large Scale Homologous Recombination and a Genetic Variant Associated with Infection. mSphere. 2022 12 21; 7(6):e0050922.
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Briaud P, Zapf RL, Mayher AD, McReynolds AKG, Frey A, Sudnick EG, Wiemels RE, Keogh RA, Shaw LN, Bose JL, Carroll RK. The Small RNA Teg41 Is a Pleiotropic Regulator of Virulence in Staphylococcus aureus. Infect Immun. 2022 11 17; 90(11):e0023622.
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