Differential Impairment of Interferon-γ Responses in Two Cases of Pulmonary Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Disease by William Rae, Yifang Gao, Efrem Eren, Rainer Döffinger, Ben Marshall, Anthony P. Williams

“…Nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTMs) are weakly virulent intracellular pathogens that are common in food and water supplies. …”
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Biscogniauxia (Hypoxylon) Canker or Dieback in Trees by Claudia Paez, Jason A. Smith

“…Typically, species of Biscogniauxia are opportunistic pathogens that do not affect healthy and vigorous trees; some species are more virulent than others. However, once they infect trees under stress (water stress, root disease, soil compaction, construction damage etc.) they can quickly colonize the host. …”
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Biscogniauxia (Hypoxylon) Canker or Dieback in Trees by Claudia Paez, Jason A. Smith

“…Typically, species of Biscogniauxia are opportunistic pathogens that do not affect healthy and vigorous trees; some species are more virulent than others. However, once they infect trees under stress (water stress, root disease, soil compaction, construction damage etc.) they can quickly colonize the host. …”
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Rome ou la solution à tous les problèmes européens : Georg Moenius et le concept de romanité durant l´entre-deux-guerres by Joris Lehnert

“…This article focuses on the ideas of the Bavarian priest Georg Moenius who saw the Roman Catholic Church as the necessary tool to spiritually restore the European civilization in times of the crisis of the interwar period. Pacifist and virulent opponent of all nationalism (and soon especially of the national-socialism), he took leave of his diocese and expressed his thoughts through travel books containing his impressions of Italy and of France. …”
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Two-Component Signal Transduction System SaeRS Positively Regulates Staphylococcus epidermidis Glucose Metabolism by Qiang Lou, Yijun Qi, Yuanfang Ma, Di Qu

“…Staphylococcus epidermidis, which is a causative pathogen of nosocomial infection, expresses its virulent traits such as biofilm and autolysis regulated by two-component signal transduction system SaeRS. …”
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A Rare Case of Proximal Junctional Failure with Delayed Infection after Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery: A Report of Two Cases by Takuro Iwami, Mitsuru Yagi, Eijiro Okada, Satoshi Suzuki, Satoshi Nori, Osahiko Tsuji, Narihito Nagoshi, Kota Watanabe, Nobuyuki Fujita, Masaya Nakamura, Morio Matsumoto

“…Since the delayed infections developed not in the fused segments but in the adjacent vertebra, the cause of the first case can be speculated as stimulation of low-virulent organisms to fester and hematogenous seeding and that of the second case as metal fretting and a sterile inflammatory response causing hematogenous microbial seeding, respectively. …”
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Isolation and characterization of pathogenic Vibrio on tiger grouper Epinephelus fuscoguttatus by . Ilmiah, . Sukenda, . Widanarni, Enang Harris

“…The isolates tested were biochemically identified as Vibrio metschnikovii, V. parahaemolyticus, and V. mimicus. The most virulent among isolates was V. parahaemolyticus. …”
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The Forgotten : tentative de réappropriation aborigène de l’histoire australienne by Virginie BERNARD

“…In recent decades, many historians and anthropologists have dedicated their research to such repressed histories, provoking virulent reactions among conservative scholars and politicians opposed to a rewriting of history which questions the Australian national narrative and identity. …”
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Modalités de diffusion et rhétoriques des discours misogynes et misogames imprimés à la Renaissance by Tatiana Clavier

“…Not only misogynistic writers contested or scoffed at arguments in favour of women, but the most virulent among them also pretended to be alongside women or found excuses to disparage them. …”
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Structurer, affirmer son identité : stratégies identitaires des fans LGBT de l’Eurovision au cours de la pandémie de Covid-19 by Oranie Abbes

“…The Eurovision Song Contest is subject to virulent criticism from the artistic and intellectual elites. …”
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Development of a horizontal transmission model to assess the effects of exposure to pathogenic E. cecorum during the hatching phase in broiler chickens by James Higuita, Marcela Arango, Aaron Forga, Mitch Rowland, Jundi Liu, Ross Wolfenden, Danielle Graham

“…Due to the emergence of virulent Enterococcus cecorum (EC) in young broiler chicken flocks, the transmissibility of EC during late embryogenesis needs to be defined. …”
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Isolation and Characterization of 89K Pathogenicity Island-Positive ST-7 Strains of Streptococcus suis Serotype 2 from Healthy Pigs, Northeast China by Shujie Wang, Peng Liu, Chunyu Li, Yafang Tan, Xuehui Cai, Dongsheng Zhou, Yongqiang Jiang

“…Data presented here showed that the virulent serotypes 1, 2, 7, and 9 of S. suis could be steadily isolated from the healthy pigs in the pig farms in all the three provinces of Northeast China. …”
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Lake salinization on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau alters viral community composition and lifestyles by Yuan-Guo Xie, Yan-Ling Qi, Zhen-Hao Luo, Yan-Ni Qu, Jian Yang, Shi-Qiang Liu, Hai-long Yang, Dan-Wei Xie, Zimeng Wang, Hong-Chen Jiang, Zheng-Shuang Hua

“…Temperate viruses increase in relative abundance along the salinity gradient, whereas virulent viruses show a corresponding decline. These shifts are mirrored in the prokaryotic communities, with Alphaproteobacteria and their infecting temperate viruses, notably Casadabanvirus, becoming more prevalent in higher salinity zones. …”
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IDENTIFICATION OF STEM RUST RESISTANCE SOURCES IN WHEAT BY USING MOLECULAR MARKERS by A. M. Kokhmetova, M. N. Atishova

“…Race Ug99 of P. graminis f. sp. tritici (pathotype TTKS) is virulent to the majority of wheat varieties. According to FAO reports, major wheat-producing countries to the east of Iran (Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan) are greatly endangered. …”
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Motion – Helicobacter pylori Causes or Worsens GERD: Arguments against the Motion by Kenneth EL McColl

“…Data from large epidemiological studies show that Helicobacter pylori is less prevalent in patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) than in control subjects. The more virulent cagA-positive strains of the organism are also less commonly seen in patients with erosive esophagitis and in those with Barrett's esophagus than in those with less severe forms of GERD. …”
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Different Transcriptional Profiles of Human Monocyte-Derived Dendritic Cells Infected with Distinct Strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium bovis Bacillus Calmette-... by Nunzia Sanarico, Alessia Colone, Manuela Grassi, Viviana Speranza, Daniela Giovannini, Antonio Ciaramella, Vittorio Colizzi, Francesca Mariani

“…In order to analyze dendritic cells (DCs) activation following infection with different mycobacterial strains, we studied the expression profiles of 165 genes of human monocyte-derived DCs infected with H37Rv, a virulent Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) laboratory strain, CMT97, a clinical MTB isolate, Mycobacterium bovis bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG), Aventis Pasteur, and BCG Japan, both employed as vaccine against tuberculosis. …”
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Nucleotide-Binding Oligomerization Domain-1 and -2 Play No Role in Controlling Brucella abortus Infection in Mice by Fernanda S. Oliveira, Natalia B. Carvalho, Dario S. Zamboni, Sergio C. Oliveira

“…However, NOD1, NOD2, and Rip2 knockout mice were no more susceptible to infection with virulent B. abortus than wild-type mice. Additionally, spleen cells from NOD1-, NOD2-, and Rip2-deficient mice showed unaltered production of IFN-γ compared to C57BL/6 mice. …”
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Evaluating passive immunity in piglets from sows vaccinated with a PEDV S protein subunit vaccine by Jiajia Liu, Jiajia Liu, Guangli Hu, Shengjin Liu, Guangcai Ren, Liguo Gao, Liguo Gao, Zhiqing Zhao, Rui Geng, Dingli Wang, Xiao Shen, Feng Chen, Hanqin Shen, Hanqin Shen

“…Piglets born to immunized sows were challenged with a virulent PEDV strain. Piglets from the subunit vaccine group exhibited lower viral shedding, reduced clinical symptoms, and minimal intestinal lesions. …”
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Live Plague Vaccine Development: Past, Present, and Future by Andrey P. Anisimov, Anastasia S. Vagaiskaya, Alexandra S. Trunyakova, Svetlana V. Dentovskaya

“…In this review, we present our opinion on reasonable tactics for the development and application of live, safe, and protective human plague vaccines causing an enhanced duration of protection and breadth of action against various virulent strains in vaccination studies representing different ages, genders, and nucleotide polymorphisms of the genes responsible for immune response.…”
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Prevalence of infection <i>H. pylori</i> in Moscow population by S. V. German, I. Ye. Zykova, A. V. Modestova, N. V. Yermakov

“…Moscow falls into group of cities with extremely high Н.pylori-infection prevalence, with predominance of virulent bacteria strains. Risk factors of Н. pylori infection in megacity were revealed.…”
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