2. Noun. The quality or state of originating or producing disease. ¹
3. Noun. (biology) : The quality of an organism to inflict damage on the host. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pathogenicity
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Medical Definition of Pathogenicity
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Pathogenicity
Literary usage of Pathogenicity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics (1888)
"The present paper records some experimental data on comparative host- pathogenicity
and pathology of the two viruses. Strains of Viruses MATERIALS ..."
2. A Text-book of General Bacteriology by Edwin Oakes Jordan (1921)
"pathogenicity for Man.—Weinberg and Seguin first showed the great importance of
... pathogenicity for Animals.—Natural infections due to B. novyi have been ..."
3. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1905)
"The pathogenicity of the organisms was demonstrated by local abscess or by general
illness, which might be fatal. Where neither a fatal result nor a local ..."
4. The Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics (1888)
"pathogenicity FOR CATTLE OF CULTURE-PASSAGED VIRUS By W. PLOWRIGHT AND RD ...
This communication describes the changes in its pathogenicity for cattle which ..."
5. A Textbook of bacteriology: A Practical Treatise for Students and by Hans Zinsser, Frederick Fuller Russell (1922)
"... CHAPTER XI FUNDAMENTAL FACTORS OF pathogenicity AND INFF,CTION WHEN microorganisms
gain entrance to the animal or human body and give rise to disease, ..."
6. Bibliography of Hookworm Disease by International Health Board, Rockefeller Foundation (1922)
"1899 WENYON, CM Observations on the common intestinal protozoa of man: their
diagnosis and pathogenicity. Lancet, Lond. 1915, ii: 1173-1183. ..."
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