capsulated

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capsulated (not comparable)

  1. Enclosed in a capsule
    • 2001 May 11, Bruce R. Levin, Rustom Antia, “Why We Don't Get Sick: The Within-Host Population Dynamics of Bacterial Infections”, in Science[1], volume 292, number 5519, →DOI, pages 1112–1115:
      If the colonizing population of the ancestral capsulated strains is too small, a sufficient number of unencapsulated variants (mutants) may not be generated and invasion will not take place.
    • 1913, John William Henry Eyre, The Elements of Bacteriological Technique[2]:
      Cultivations from the heart blood gave a pure growth of a typical (capsulated) pneumococcus.

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