- A
bacteriophage (/bækˈtɪərioʊfeɪdʒ/), also
known informally as a
phage (/ˈfeɪdʒ/), is a
virus that
infects and
replicates within bacteria and archaea...
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Escherichia virus T4 is a
species of
bacteriophages that
infect Escherichia coli bacteria. It is a double-stranded DNA
virus in the
subfamily Tevenvirinae...
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Bacteriophage MS2 (Emesvirus zinderi),
commonly called MS2, is an icosahedral, positive-sense single-stranded RNA
virus that
infects the
bacterium Escherichia...
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Bacteriophage PBC1 is a
bacteriophage that
infects the spore-forming
bacterium Bacillus cereus. Kong, Minsuk; Kim, Minsik; Ryu,
Sangryeol (June 2012)...
- therapy,
viral phage therapy, or
phagotherapy is the
therapeutic use of
bacteriophages for the
treatment of
pathogenic bacterial infections. This therapeutic...
- (coliphage λ,
scientific name
Lambdavirus lambda) is a
bacterial virus, or
bacteriophage, that
infects the
bacterial species Escherichia coli (E. coli). It was...
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Giles is a
bacteriophage that
infects Mycobacterium smegmatis bacteria. The
genome of this
phage is very
different from that of
other mycobacteriophages...
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Bacteriophage P2,
scientific name
Peduovirus P2 (formerly
Escherichia virus P2), is a
temperate phage that
infects E. coli. It is a
tailed virus with...
- Ff
phages (fd and f1 are others), a
member of the
family filamentous bacteriophage (inovirus). Ff
phages are
composed of
circular single-stranded DNA (ssDNA)...
- virology. The
subsequent discovery and
partial characterization of
bacteriophages by
Frederick Twort and Félix d'Herelle
further catalyzed the field,...
