Definition of Lysogenicity

1. Noun. The condition of a host bacterium that has incorporated a phage into its own genetic material. "When a phage infects a bacterium it can either destroy its host or be incorporated in the host genome in a state of lysogeny"

Exact synonyms: Lysogeny
Generic synonyms: Condition
Derivative terms: Lysogenic, Lysogenic, Lysogenic

Definition of Lysogenicity

1. [n -TIES]

Medical Definition of Lysogenicity

1. The property of being lysogenic. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lysogenicity

lysoclines
lysogen
lysogenesis
lysogenic
lysogenic bacteria
lysogenic bacterium
lysogenic conversion
lysogenic cycle
lysogenic induction
lysogenic infection
lysogenic pathway
lysogenic strain
lysogenic virus
lysogenically
lysogenicities
lysogenicity (current term)
lysogenies
lysogenisation
lysogenise
lysogenised
lysogenises
lysogenising
lysogenization
lysogenizations
lysogenize
lysogenized
lysogenizes
lysogenizing
lysogens
lysogeny

Literary usage of Lysogenicity

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Elements of Clinical Bacteriology for Physicians and Students by Felix Klemperer, Ernst Levy (1900)
"... maintains the view also for Asiatic cholera in human beings that the immunity depends upon specific bactericidal influences (lysogenicity). ..."

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