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Androm′eda strain′,
- Pathologyan infectious pathogen that mutates unpredictably into new forms and shows extreme resistance to destruction by conventional means.
- after such a pathogen in a novel of the same name (1969) by U.south, southern. author Michael Crichton (born 1942) 1970–75
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