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Microbes have several mechanisms of pathogenicity. Contrast pathogenicity and virulence. Describe five virulence factors found in microbes...

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Microbes have several mechanisms of pathogenicity. Contrastpathogenicity and virulence. Describe five virulence factors foundin microbes and explain how each affects the establishment andsuccess of disease.

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Pathogenicity is an absolute qualitative ability of an infectious agent to cause disease while virulence is the quantitative relative capacity of a pathogen to invade or infect host cells The major virulence factors includes adhesins toxins surface    See Answer
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