Department Microbiology

Prof. Dr. med. Sören G. Gatermann

Head of the Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology at the Ruhr-University Bochum.

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Attenuation

Attenuation Definition In microbiology, "attenuated" means that a pathogen has been weakened so that it largely loses its disease-causing potential but retains its ability to trigger an immune response.In concrete terms this means:The microorganism is alive but no longer fully virulent.It can oft...

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