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Reduction in a pathogen's sensitivity to a particular drug. Resistance is thought to result usually from a genetic mutation. In HIV, such mutations can change the structure of viral enzymes and proteins so that an antiviral drug can no longer bind with them as well as it used to. Resistance detected by searching a pathogen's genetic makeup for mutations thought to confer lower susceptibility is called "genotypic resistance. ...
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The ability of an organism to exclude or overcome, completely or in some degree, the effect of a pathogen or other damaging factor. (2)
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For plants and animals, the ability to withstand poor environmental conditions or attacks by chemicals or disease. May be inborn or acquired.
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Failure of a cancer to shrink after treatment
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The difficulty in moving electrical current through a conductor to which voltage is applied. Expressed in ohms.
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