virulome

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noun

The set of genes that contribute to the virulence of a bacterium.

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Meanings

nounvirulome (plural virulomes)

plural virulomes

  1. biologyThe set of genes that contribute to the virulence of a bacterium.

    To further assess the virulome, blast score ratio (BSR) analysis was used as previously described to query known virulence genes (S2 Table) and their homologs across all S.

    2015 July 11, “Using Whole Genome Analysis to Examine Recombination across Diverse Sequence Types of Staphylococcus aureus”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin

From virulence + -ome.

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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “virulome,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/virulome.

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