virulent

a virulent infection

a virulent attack on liberalism.

a virulent (bacterio) phage

a virulent form of cancer.

a virulent form of flu

She is very virulent about her former employer.

virulent criticism.See Synonyms at poisonous

Bacteria can induce apoptosis of the mouse macrophage through its virulent substances such as endotoxin, exotoxin, invasin etc.

It perplexed her mother and caused her teacher to think I was a militarist at a time when virulent antimilitarism was de rigueur.

Septicaemic plague occurs when infection spreads directly through the bloodstream, while the pneumonic form is the most virulent but least common.

The artificial infection experiment showed that 80 percent of strains (8/10) were highly virulent and the disease was easily reproduced by subcutaneous, intramuscular or webfoot injection.

Results showed that germination percentage of urediospore, uredium number and sporulation of challenge inoculation race were reduced after inoculation with weak virulent race.