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adj. - Not virulent.

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Usage examples (36)
  • Asibi virus to the relatively avirulent French strain.
  • In my own experiments with tubercle bacilli of human origin which were avirulent to cattle, cultures were always used which had been cultivated for years in the laboratory.
  • This proved of great value, for as strains of virus avirulent for monkeys were developed, the mouse was the only animal by which the presence and amount could be readily...
  • Rps3a is indicated as avirulent (A) or virulent (V).
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