If You Had the Ability to Genetically Engineer a Pathogenic

question 32

Essay

If you had the ability to genetically engineer a pathogenic bacterium, what features would you include? Choose a portal of entry and a portal of exit for your pathogen. Then choose three virulence factors from at least two the following areas: toxins, adhesins, invasins, acquisition of nutrients, and avoidance of the immune system, and describe how each factor will help your bacterium survive in the host. Your virulence factors should make sense for the portals of entry and exit that you chose.

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