virulent

Preposition: on

• cultivar: These were virulent on the previously resistant cultivars Brimstone and Fenman ( at the seedling stage ).

Modifies a noun

• strain: The more virulent strains are almost entirely resistant to antibiotics.
• pathogen: These virulent pathogens cause inflammation in the lung in cystic fibrosis, killing many young adults with the disease.
• hatred: The Eurofanatics have an especially virulent hatred of " Save Britain's Fish " .
• epidemic: Read the full article online: " Virulent epidemics and the scope of health care workers ' duty of care "

Modifying Another Word

• particularly: Pitt the Elder was a particularly virulent opponent of the terms of the treaty.
• highly: Infection with highly virulent strains should be more straightforward.
• especially: Shortly on, in 1918, an especially virulent strain of influenza swept the globe leaving further millions dead in its wake.
• increasingly: Ian Poxton wonders what can be done to beat the increasingly virulent strains of Clostridium difficile.
• so: The virus is so virulent, your Highness, nobody can speak the King's English any more.
• very: Glanders is a very virulent, infectious disease spread by bacteria.

Used with adjective complement

• become: It is a feature of viruses that with time they become less virulent.

Preposition: in

• way: Secondly, a new agent, presumably BSE, is virulent in a way in which previous agents such as scrapie have not been.

Preposition: than

• strain: Each strain may have different characteristics, affect different species in different ways, and be more or less virulent than other strains.
• virus: Viruses in asymptomatic individuals tend to be less virulent than viruses found in people with AIDS.
• cancer: An example is the question: ' is lung cancer in women more virulent than lung cancer in men?