virological

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Virological means relating to virology—the scientific study of viruses.

The term appears in technical and medical contexts: virological testing, virological response to treatment, virological surveillance of emerging pathogens.

A virological cure eliminates detectable virus from the body.

disease

outbreak

Sudden eruption of trouble

illness · symptoms · quarantine · isolation · hospitalization · diagnosis · diagnostics · serology · surveillance · cluster

cellular

virus

Microscopic infectious agent

genome · RNA · DNA · nucleic · replication · transcription · polymerase · cytoplasm · ribosome · organelle

pathogenesis

infection

Pathogen invasion causing illness

host · vector · reservoir · zoonosis · shedding · incubation · load · tropism · latency · reactivation

evolution

mutation

Permanent DNA alteration

  • variantDiffering form of something
  • strainExcessive stretching force
  • driftGradual movement, no direction

shift · antigenic · recombination · phylogeny · phylogenetics · genomics · sequencing · adaptation · fitness · resistance

immunity

immune

Protected from harm

vaccine · vaccination · immunology · immunization · neutralization · titer · memory · cell · humoral · cellular

research

laboratory

Facility for scientific investigation

  • clinicalEmotionally detached, medically precise
  • trialJudicial examination of claims
  • therapyCurative mental treatment

therapeutics · treatment · biomedical · bioinformatics · pathogenesis · assay · culture · isolation · characterization · detection

Opposites
pathogen type studied

virologicalbacteriological

Of germ science

bacterial · mycological · fungal · cellular · microbiological

Family

viral, antiviral, virology, virally, antivirals, virologist, virologists

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